Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned the barbaric attack outside a Jewish synagogue in Manchester, while the foreign minister blamed London, for failing to prevent the rise of anti-Semitism in the country.

“Israel shares the anguish of the British Jewish community following the brutal terrorist attack committed in Manchester. As I warned at the UN, weakness in the face of terrorism only feeds it. Only strength and unity can defeat it,” Netanyahu said in the statement issued by his office.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said he was “stunned by the deadly attack” near the Heaton Park synagogue on the morning of “the holiest day for the Jewish people, Yom Kippur.”

“The truth must be told: obvious and widespread anti-Semitic and anti-Israel incitement, as well as calls for support for terrorism, have recently become commonplace on the streets of London, in cities across the UK and on its universities,” he said in a post on the X platform.

“The British authorities have not taken the necessary steps to stamp out this toxic wave of anti-Semitism and have even allowed it to persist,” he claimed, clarifying that Israel expects “more than words on the part of the Starmer government.”

For Homeland Security Minister Itamar Ben Gweir, “Britain, which has chosen in recent years, repeatedly, to accept terrorists, to protect them and to support them, today received a brutal reminder: those who give power to terrorism will end up becoming its victims in their own country.”

Britain incurred Israel’s wrath in late September when it formally recognized the Palestinian state, as did many other Western countries.