{"id":1184,"date":"2026-04-17T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:03:00","slug":"london-alert-for-suspicious-objects-near-the-israeli-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"London: alert for suspicious objects near the Israeli embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>British Police<\/b>  announced today that it is investigating an incident of <b>safety <\/b>at <b>press of Israel <\/b>in London with officers in protective gear assessing &#8220;discarded objects&#8221; found nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the<\/b> counter-terrorism service<\/b> are also examining a <b>video<\/b> posted online overnight in which an organisation claims to have targeted the embassy with <b>drones<\/b> carrying dangerous substances, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: The Metropolitan Police have said they&#8217;re investigating a security incident near London&#8217;s Israeli embassy after officers found a number of discarded items in the surrounding area, prompting an increased police presence. pic.twitter.com\/Q2ndrsBGul<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; GB News (@GBNEWS) April 17, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;While we can confirm that the embassy was not attacked, we are conducting investigations under the urgent procedure to ascertain the credibility of the video and determine if there is any connection between it and the items found dumped in the Kensington Gardens,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the area was cordoned off and the public was prohibited from accessing the Gardens and the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not believe there is an increased safety risk to the public at this stage,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;\/html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British police said today that they are investigating a security incident near the Israeli embassy in London involving officers with &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}