Seven people were detained on Thursday over a bomb attack on a synagogue in Belgium in March, shortly after the start of the Middle East war, the federal prosecutor’s office said.

The blast, which shattered windows and damaged the main door of the Great Synagogue of Liege, in eastern Belgium, was condemned by the government as a “despicable antisemitic act.”

A wave of raids led by a Belgian anti-terrorism judge on Thursday led to the arrest of seven suspects, who have not been named.

The federal prosecutor’s office declined to provide any details about where the police operations took place.

“At this stage, and in the interest of the investigation, no further information can be released,” the office said.

The Liege attack was followed a few days later by at least two similar criminal acts targeting Jewish sites in the neighboring Netherlands, including a Jewish school in Amsterdam.

Two teens were also arrested later in March for a suspected antisemitic torching of a car in Antwerp, amid a rash of attacks on Jewish communities in Europe and elsewhere since the start........

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