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An object believed to be an explosive device was found outside the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm on January 31 and destroyed by the national bomb squad.
Swedish police said that it was notified about the object by embassy staff. The device was later detonated in a controlled manner, a police spokesperson told the broadcaster TV4.
Police declined to give any detail on the nature of the object, or of how it had got into the embassy grounds. The embassy building was reportedly cordoned off by Swedish police at a distance of about 100 meters after the discovery of the object.
Commenting on the incident, Israel’s Ambassador to Sweden, Ziv Nevo Kulman, said there was an “attempted attack” against the embassy and its employees.
“We thank the Swedish authorities for their swift response,” the ambassador writes on X, formerly Twitter. “We will not be intimidated by terror.”
Several attempts to attack Israel’s embassies and Israel-affiliated companies were reported in different countries after the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip, with all the incidents being closer to a form of protest than a real attack and causing no injuries.
Last week, a makeshift explosive device went off outside the Greece offices of Zim, Israel’s main international cargo shipping company.
Israel assassinated several members of the Iran-led Axis of Resistance, including senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in recent weeks. This caused additional security worries to Israel and its allies.
