Bomb scare

German police defuse 21 explosive devices uncovered at power grid in Saxony

German police said on Friday they were searching for a man who sent letters claiming responsibility for a series of sabotage attacks on the power grid after they found explosives at his home.

German special police forces secure the area on the day of German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader Friedrich Merz, and Saxony-Anhalt State Prime Minister and top candidate Sven Schulze visit to UPM Biochemicals in Leuna, Germany, September 3, 2026.
A large Iranian missile fragment found in an open area in central Israel, April 22, 2026.

Large Iranian missile fragment located in open area in central Israel

Members of the explosive ordinance disposal unit inspect a defused US-made bomb (C), dropped during World War II, that was found inside a construction site at the junction of Convention Avenue and Hung Hing Road in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong on May 11, 2018.

WWII bomb found in Hong Kong defused after mass evacuation

Illustrative: German police guard the Reichstag building, the seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, before the German presidential election in Berlin, February 12, 2017

WWII bomb forces overnight evacuation in central Berlin


Over 100 Canadian Jewish institutions, synagogues, targeted in mass bomb threat

Thornhill MP Melissa Lantsman and Eglinton-Lawrence MP Marco Mendicino gave estimates on social media that between 100-125 Jewish institutions were targeted in the mass bomb threat.

 A police officer guards the front gate to Rideau Hall, and the grounds where Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. July 2, 2020.

Man charged with making antisemitic bomb threats against Jewish hospitals in New York

The threats predated a recent spree of bomb threats against Jewish institutions, mainly synagogues, that began in the summer of 2023.

 Long Island Jewish, Valley Stream was hit with a bomb threat in Sep. 2021.

'In the Name of Palestine': Pennsylvania State Capitol evacuated after bomb threat

Email threatened to trigger devices if Biden didn't denounce Israel.

 A general view of the Pennsylvania State Capitol, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., January 17, 2021.

At least four New York City synagogues receive bomb threats

Bomb threats target New York City synagogues, including LGBTQ-oriented and Reform congregations. Mark Treyger denounces the timing on Holocaust Remembrance Day eve amid rising antisemitism.

 New York

NYC synagogues, museum receive fake bomb threats, New York officials say

All incidents continue to be investigated by the New York Police Department.

 An NYPD law enforcement official stands guard after establishing a closed perimeter on campus around student protesters at Columbia University during a comprehensive operation to clear campus of protesters in support of Palestinians

Synagogue bomb threat is dramatized in Oscars ad against antisemitism by Robert Kraft

The 60-second Oscars ad depicts what happened in Attleboro, Massachusetts, last fall when Congregation Agudas Achim, a Reconstructionist synagogue, was evacuated because of a bomb threat.

 The "Neighbors" ad depicts a church welcoming in a nearby synagogue after a bar mitzvah service was interrupted by a bomb threat.

Pro-Palestinian protesters block NYPD from addressing bomb threat, official claims

An Uber driver discovered a grenade in the back of his car, but NYPD was unable to arrive at the scene quickly enough because pro-Palestinian protesters were blocking the streets.

 Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest in Times Square on the second day of the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, in Manhattan in New York City, U.S., October 8, 2023

Oklahoma University evacuated over anti-Israel bomb scare

The message left by the suspicious package read "Ignore this like you do genocide. 28,000 and counting. Silence is complicity."

Gould Hall on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma (United States).

Bomb explodes outside ministry in Athens, no injuries

A Greek newspaper received a phone call by an unknown caller that a bomb had been planted at the ministry and had informed the police who cordoned off the area before the explosion.

 Police officers are seen in Athens, Greece, June 23, 2021

London primary school considers closure over bomb threats amid Palestine flag row

The school was the site of protests in December after parents were asked to speak to their children about inappropriate comments made on school grounds relating to the Israel-Hamas war.

 An empty classroom.