According to Dutch authorities, the blast damaged a Jewish school in Amsterdam.
The city’s mayor, Femke Halsema, said she believed the explosion was a “deliberate attack against the Jewish community.”
The incident took place in the early hours of Saturday and the police and fire brigade responded immediately.
Damage was limited to a school in a residential neighborhood on the south side of Amsterdam.
And no injuries were reported.
Police are examining camera footage showing the man who detonated the explosives.
“This is an act of cowardly aggression against the Jewish community,” Ms Halsema said.
“Jewish people in Amsterdam are increasingly facing anti-Semitism. This is unacceptable.”
Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten called the attack in Amsterdam “horrific” and said it understandably “sparked fear and
anger” in the Jewish community.
“The safety of Jewish institutions is our full focus,” he said in a post on X.
Tighter security at Jewish schools and institutions has been reinforced following recent attacks on synagogues in Rotterdam and Liege, Belgium.
There was also Attack on Synagogue A Lebanese-born US citizen crashed his car into a building in West Bloomfield, near Detroit, Michigan on Thursday.
An assailant armed with a rifle opened fire at Temple Israel, officials said.
Neither the synagogue’s staff, teachers nor the 140 children in its early childhood center were injured.
Federal investigators said the Michigan incident was an act of violence targeting the Jewish community.
Fears of possible attacks against Jewish communities around the world have increased since the US-Israeli airstrikes Iran and the subsequent military response from Tehran.
