Germany’s Scholz vows action after Molotovs thrown at Berlin synagogue

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed to fight anti-Semitism on German soil after attackers hurled two Molotov cocktails at a Jewish synagogue in Berlin early today.

Police in the German capital said they are probing the attack in the Mitte district of the city. There are no reports of injuries or damage.

The attack, at around 3:45am, comes amid a sharp increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the wake of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

“Two unidentified people came on foot and threw two burning bottles filled with liquid in the direction of the synagogue on Brunnenstrasse,” a commercial and residential street, police said in a statement.

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