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January 29th, 2021 
Awake Goy A blast outside the Israeli embassy in New Delhi on Friday damaged cars but did not cause injuries, police said.
The district around the embassy was sealed off after the explosion and police and bomb disposal experts took over the scene.
A police statement described it as a “very low-intensity improvised device” that blew out the windows on three nearby cars and said a preliminary investigation “suggests a mischievous attempt to create a sensation.”
Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the blast and that no one was hurt.
“The incident is being investigated by Indian authorities who are in contact with the relevant Israeli officials,” the ministry said. “The foreign minister is being updated regularly and has ordered all necessary security steps be taken.”
India’s Ambassador to Israel Sanjeev Singla called Foreign Ministry Director-General Alon Ushpiz and said he promised India would provide whatever help necessary.
A low intensity Blast near Israel Embassy in #Delhi at Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Road. Fire department officials have moved to the spot and intelligence officials have started inspection. pic.twitter.com/2uXYlXwx6g
— INDIA NARRATIVE (@india_narrative) January 29, 2021
Israeli missions have been on alert around the world in the wake of the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist in November of last year. Tehran has blamed Israel and promised revenge.
In 2012 the wife of Israel’s defense attaché to India was moderately injured after a motorcyclist attached a bomb to her car near the embassy. Iran was suspected in the Delhi attack.
File: A car that was carrying Tal Yehoshua Koren burns outside the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi, February 2012 (Joji Philip Thomas, via Twitter)
It was part of a series of attempted attacks against Israeli targets around the world attributed to Iran. The same day as the New Delhi blast, a bomb was discovered on an Israeli diplomat’s car in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The next day, three Iranians accidentally blew up their house in Thailand.
There was speculation that those incidents were in response to Israel’s alleged assassinations of multiple Iranian nuclear scientists as Jerusalem fought to curtail Iran’s nuclear program.
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