(Bloomberg) – As the conflict between Israel and Hamas flared up again two years ago, British security officials spread the bloodshed in the local streets. Thursday – Yom Kippur – the violence eventually hit the Jewish community of Britain. The attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester was the deadliest domestic terror attack since 2020. The attacker-who was identified by police as a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent-attacked a vehicle in the temple and then attacked worshipers with a knife and reminded a team of the Motors Police and 2017. Al-Shamie’s motives or his way to a fatal stance with the armed police this week has crystallized the incident since October 7, 2023. Ken McCallum, Director General of the Internal Security Service MI5, said in a speech last year: “We are vigorously alive to the risk of causing events in the Middle East directly in the United Kingdom. Security officials are concerned about what they see as the ominous potentially radicalizing consequences for thousands of people in Britain, especially young people in Britain, to look. Anti -Semitic banners and slogans. Jews, representing 0.5% of the population, reached a record high last year. Published police against terror over the past year has disrupted several suspected plots that target the Jews. is a Moroccan asylum seeker jailed for killing a 70-year-old man in a terror attack inspired by the Gaza War. Jewish areas promised, critics noted that the Manchester synagogue had already had gates and subsidized security and said that more action was needed to counter anti-Semitism. Performed by people who were not on the radar of the security services and acted alone, often after they suddenly radicalized to the point of violence by material found online. Rape Terms and that he was free on bail. From Friday night, police have arrested six others in the aftermath of the Manchester attack on the suspicion of the commission, preparation and adjustment of terrorism. Both the threat and to counteract it, hence the UK’s ongoing attempts to bypass coding for terror suspects, causing a fight with Apple, Inc. and the US. The UK may have expected to see more Gaza -related violence, if it was not for Al -Qaeda and the Islamic State focusing on other conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, one official said. In Coventry, jailed for the design of an armed drone for Islamic State and two brothers in Birmingham was convicted of attempting to join ISKP. The arrest of about 40 people during the pro-Palestinian protests that evening after the synagogue attack, including six charged with the assault of police officers. Try to drag our country down a toxic spiral of division and hatred ”and the leading Gaza protest organizer, Palestine Action, branded as a terror group, his government is caught in the middle. But this is the information people get online, many of whom are false or distorted, which have made attacks by safety officials such as Thursday’s more likely and more difficult to prevent. “Unfortunately, we have long known about and struggled to see the power of what people see online in radicalizing thoughts, especially young thoughts,”, former cabinet secretary Simon Case told Bloomberg in an interview. “We will probably have been living with the online weather of Hamas’s attack and the Israeli reaction for many years.” -With help from Alex Morales, William Standing, Siraj Dateo and Myles Miller. More stories like these are available on Bloomberg.com © 2025 Bloomberg LP
UK confronts rising long-term terror threat from the war in Gaza
