LONDON (AP) — Four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity in London were set on fire early Monday morning in London, in what British police are investigating as an antisemitic hate crime.

No one was injured in the overnight attack, which shattered windows in nearby homes and left the vehicles charred shells.

The antisemitic arson attack in Golders Green is horrifying.

I’ve been in touch with Jewish community leaders this morning and will continue to do so throughout the day.

An attack on our Jewish community is an attack on us all. We will fight the poison that is antisemitism. pic.twitter.com/el2AqQ7F6a

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) March 23, 2026

Religious and political leaders condemned what Prime Minister Keir Starmer called a “horrific” antisemitic attack.

“Antisemitism has no place in our society and it’s really important that we all stand together at a moment like this,” he said.

Officers were called to Golders Green, a north London neighborhood with a large Jewish population, after receiving reports of a fire, the Metropolitan Police force said.

Four ambulances belonging to Hatzola Northwest, a volunteer organization that provides emergency medical response, were damaged, according to the London Fire Brigade.

What appeared to be footage from a security camera showed three figures in black wearing hoods carrying a canister toward one of the ambulance before flames erupted around the vehicle. Police said they are looking for three suspects but no arrests have been made yet.

Mark Reisner, who lives in the neighborhood, heard loud explosions and arrived at the scene “just as the third ambulance was blowing up,” he told Sky News.

“A very loud explosion, you sort of felt it go through your guts,” he said, adding, “it’s just left us all reeling with confusion and shock.”

The attack spread fear and alarm through Britain’s Jewish community, which feels increasingly vulnerable.

Shomrim, a nonprofit organization which operates a neighborhood watch in the area, condemned the attack on the social network X as “a targeted and deeply concerning incident affecting a vital emergency service serving the local Jewish community.”

In October 2025, an attacker drove his car into people gathered outside a Manchester synagogue to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur and stabbed one person to death. Another person died during the attack after being inadvertently shot by police.

Last week two men in London were charged with carrying out “hostile” surveillance last year of the U.K.’s Jewish community on behalf of Iran.

Some members of the community criticize Starmer’s Labour Party government for failing to prevent pro-Palestinian demonstrations from tipping into anti-Jewish speech and acts.

Peter Zinkin, a Conservative politician who represents Golders Green on the local council, said the community felt “distress and anger.”

“Burning ambulances in the middle of the night is a disgrace,” he said. “And you have to ask yourself, why did it happen? And the reason I’m afraid that it happened is that the government and the media, particularly certain parts of the media, have validated antisemitism on a countrywide scale.”

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis called it a “sickening assault.”

“At a time when Jewish communities around the world are facing a growing pattern of these violent attacks, we will meet this moment with shared resolve and stand together against hatred and intimidation,” he wrote on X.

The deliberate arson attacks against Hatzola ambulances in London are a particularly sickening assault – not only on the Jewish community, but on the values we share as a society.

Our Hatzola volunteer ambulance corps is an extraordinary service, whose sole mission is to…

— Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis (@chiefrabbi) March 23, 2026