The authorities in Denmark are investigating two explosions early Wednesday morning near the Israeli Embassy near Copenhagen.
The explosions, which took place around 3:20 a.m., according to the Copenhagen Police Department, were reported in Hellerup, a seaside suburb just north of Copenhagen that is home to several embassies, the police said. Security personnel at the embassy heard the explosions and reported them, the police said.
No one was injured, the police said, and no arrests have been made.
Speaking later on Wednesday morning, a police spokesman said officers were still present in the area around the embassy and that they had blocked off several roads as they conducted their investigation with the assistance of the Danish intelligence service.
The Israeli Embassy in Denmark said on its Facebook page that it was “shocked by the explosions.”
The explosions came a day after the police in Stockholm said that the Israeli Embassy there appeared to have been hit by gunfire. The police were investigating, but said no one had been injured and no arrests had been made.
Other Israeli diplomatic missions in Europe have seen disturbances recently. Last month, police officers in Munich shot and killed a gunman who opened fire at security guards near the Israeli Consulate there. And in June, an assailant wielding a crossbow attacked a police officer guarding the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia’s capital.
The attacks on the Scandinavian embassies on Wednesday came against a backdrop of further escalating tensions in the Middle East after a year of war triggered by the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
Iran fired 180 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday evening, in retaliation of the killing of prominent leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, both Iran-backed militias. And the Israeli military began a ground invasion against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Monday.
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