{"id":241819,"date":"2026-03-09T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=241819"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:34:53","slug":"explosion-occurs-near-synagogue-in-belgiums-liege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/241819\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion occurs near synagogue in Belgium\u2019s Li\u00e8ge"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>An explosion occurred near a synagogue in the city of Li&egrave;ge, Belgium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrt.be\/vrtnws\/nl\/2026\/03\/09\/explosie-aan-synagoge-in-luik-geen-gewonden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VRT<\/a> reports, citing police sources.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured, but the synagogue suffered material damage, including broken windows. The area around the building was cordoned off, and the street was closed.<\/p>\n<p>Li&egrave;ge Mayor Willy Demeyer described the incident as a &ldquo;violent act of anti-Semitism.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is unacceptable that we are bringing conflicts from abroad into our city,&rdquo; Demeyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Li&egrave;ge police&rsquo;s counter-terrorism unit is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion occurred near a synagogue in the city of Li&egrave;ge, Belgium, VRT reports, citing police sources. No one was injured, but the synagogue suffered material damage, including broken windows. The area around the building was cordoned off, and the street was closed. Li&egrave;ge Mayor Willy Demeyer described the incident as a &ldquo;violent act of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":241787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241820,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241819\/revisions\/241820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}