A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing a Jewish man within the Swiss metropolis of Zurich.
Police suspect antisemitism as a motive for the assault on Saturday night time, which comes amid an increase in related incidents throughout Europe.
The Swiss Organisation Of Jewish Communities stated the 50-year-old sufferer is in hospital with severe accidents.
“Physical attacks on Jewish people in Switzerland are very rare,” the group stated.
“The Jewish community has been spared from such life-threatening attacks for the past two decades.
“However, there was a major improve in such bodily assaults since 7 October.”
The struggle between Israel and Hamas started on 7 October final yr when the militant group stormed throughout southern Israel, killing 1,200 individuals and seizing round 250 hostages.
Nearly 5 months later, an estimated 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and lots of of hundreds extra are on the point of famine in Gaza.
In the UK in February, the Community Security Trust stated the variety of antisemitic incidents reached an all-time excessive final yr.
The charity recorded 4,103 antisemitic incidents within the UK in 2023, up from the earlier annual document of two,261 two years earlier.
It blamed the document on the “sheer volume of antisemitism perpetrated across the UK following Hamas’ attack on Israel on 7 October”.
Source: information.sky.com”