A 16-year-old haredi Jewish girl was hospitalized with a head injury after being attacked in London by an antisemite.
The assailant threw multiple glass bottles at a group of Jewish teenage girls from a balcony, the Jewish Chronicle reported.
The Shomrim organization wrote on X, “This attack on innocent young Jewish girls has shocked the community."
Local police announced that they had opened an investigation into the incident as a “potential antisemitic hate crime.” No suspect has been arrested yet.
Britain has seen a surge in antisemitic incidents in the year that has passed since Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
Data released last month by the government found that religious hate crimes in England and Wales surged by a record 25 percent over the past year, driven by an increase since the onset of the Gaza war.
The highest annual tally of religious hate crimes in over a decade was attributed to a rise in offenses "against Jewish people and to a lesser extent Muslims" following the Hamas attack on October 7 last year, the interior ministry reported.
Hate crimes against Jewish people more than doubled, reaching 3,282 cases, while offenses against Muslims also climbed to 3,866.
The data was released days after protesters carrying banners in support of Hezbollah marched through central London.
Incidents of antisemitism in Britain in recent months include one which occurred in May, when a woman carrying a large knife was arrested in Stamford Hill, north London.
The woman allegedly told a Jewish man that he is a "provocation" before adding, "You people, you Jewish...all the trouble you’re creating in the world."
A month earlier, a Jewish man was attacked by four men in Stamford Hill. According to the Stamford Hill Shomrim, a Jewish civilian watch organization, the four individuals approached the Jewish man, threatened him, and demanded he get into the trunk of their car.
Several days before that, two men were arrested at a pro-Palestinian Arab march in London. One of the men was taken into custody for carrying a swastika emblazoned placard and another for allegedly making racist remarks towards counter-protesters, the Metropolitan Police said.