STOCKHOLM: Israel’s embassy in Stockholm was the target of an attempted attack, the ambassador said Wednesday, after a bomb squad destroyed what Swedish police called “a dangerous object.”
Police said the “live” device had been found by staff inside the premises of the Israeli embassy in the Swedish capital, without specifying what the object was.
“We were alerted at 1:08 p.m. (1208 GMT) by the embassy that they had found an object they believed to be dangerous,” Daniel Wikdahl with the Stockholm police told AFP.
An area around the object was closed off and Wikdahl added that the national bomb squad had been called to scene and had decided to destroy the object.
“The object has been destroyed by the national bomb squad, and our assessment is that it was live,” the police officer said.
Police have opened an investigation, but Wikdahl declined to specify what the object was, citing the ongoing enquiries.
“Today we were subject to an attempted attack against the Embassy of Israel in Stockholm and its employees,” Israeli ambassador to Sweden Ziv Nevo Kulman said in a post to X.
“We will not be intimidated by terror,” Kulman added.
Sweden’s government in late October pledged 10 million kronor ($1 million) in to increase security at Jewish institutions and congregations, as a result of increased anti-semitism in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.
In early December, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson took part in a march against anti-semitism in Stockholm.
Swedish police said at the time, they had received 120 reports of ant-semitic crimes since the outbreak of the war.
Following the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, which resulted in the deaths of around 1,140 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures, its military launched a withering air, land and sea offensive.
It has killed at least 26,900 people in Gaza, most of them women and children, according to the territory’s health ministry.
Attack foiled at Israel’s Sweden embassy: ambassador
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Attack foiled at Israel’s Sweden embassy: ambassador
- Police said the “live” device had been found by staff inside the premises of the Israeli embassy in the Swedish capital
- Sweden’s government in late October pledged 10 million kronor ($1 million) in to increase security at Jewish institutions and congregations
Russian missiles attack port infrastructure near Ukraine’s Odesa, kill seven
- At least 15 people were also injured in the Russian missile strike, said Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba
A Russian missile attack late on Friday on port infrastructure around Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa killed seven people and injured 15, Ukrainian officials said.
“In the late evening, Russia attacked port infrastructure in Odesa region with ballistic missiles,” Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba wrote on Telegram.
Kuleba and Odesa regional governor Oleh Kiper said that, according to preliminary reports, seven people were killed and 15 injured. A source familiar with the matter said the attack was on Pivdennyi — one of three ports in the area.
Odesa, a focal point of Ukrainian grain and other exports, has been a frequent target of Russian attacks since Russia invaded its smaller neighbor in February 2022.
The intensity of the attacks has increased in recent days. One strike damaged a bridge southwest of Odesa and cut a major route between the city and the Danube River port of Reni and complicated border crossings to Moldova and Romania.
