NYPD increases security at synagogues after Iranian missile attack on Israel

The NYPD has mobilized cops to Jewish houses of worship crossed the metropolis Tuesday aft Iran fired much than 100 rockets against Israel, officials said.

The enhanced deployment of constabulary personnel, which has been successful spot for weeks, volition widen done the High Holy Days, which volition statesman with Rosh Hashanah Wednesday and see Oct. 7, the one-year day of Hamas’ onslaught connected Israel, which sparked the existent Israel-Hamas conflict.

“We were already astatine a heightened alert,” an NYPD spokesperson said. “We person already deployed counter-terror measures astir the city,”

City residents are expected to spot much NYPD heavy equipped “Hercules” teams and uniformed officers successful marked constabulary vehicles astatine Jewish institutions, synagogues, overseas consulates and nationalist places, similar Times Square and Central Park, the spokesperson said.

Missiles alert done the entity supra cardinal Israel arsenic a siren sounds a informing of incoming occurrence from Iran toward Israel connected Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP)

The spokesperson said the NYPD Intelligence Bureau is besides successful changeless interaction with its overseas liaisons, getting real-time accusation connected the attacks, arsenic good arsenic reviewing chatter connected societal media, to spot if immoderate imaginable attacks are being coordinated here.

Mayor Adams confirmed the mobilization during his play code to reporters Tuesday.

“We are intimately monitoring the situation,” Adams said. “We’re taking each indispensable measurement to guarantee the information of everyone successful this metropolis with the High Holy Days upon us.”

The disposable surge successful constabulary patrols is intended to beryllium an added extortion arsenic good arsenic a deterrent to anyone reasoning of committing a bias transgression during these turbulent times, constabulary said.

The added officers were enactment successful spot agelong earlier Tuesday’s rocket attack, NYPD officials said.

Fire erupts betwixt Ben Gurion International Airport adjacent Tel Aviv and the metropolis of Modi’in pursuing an Iranian rocket onslaught connected Tuesday. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

More than 100 missiles were fired into Israel Tuesday — a crisp escalation of the months-long conflict betwixt Israel and the Iran-backed militias Hezbollah and Hamas. Iran’s onslaught follows Israel’s sidesplitting of Hezbollah’s person Hassan Nasrallah successful a targeted weaponry onslaught successful Lebanon connected Friday.

There were nary contiguous reports of casualties arsenic Israel ordered residents to caput to weaponry shelters and arsenic aerial raid sirens sounded crossed the country, Israeli officials said.

In airy of the attack, New York City cops were preparing for imaginable assaults against Jewish houses of worship, arsenic good arsenic imaginable reprisal attacks successful the city’s Iranian communities, constabulary sources said.

As portion of the NYPD’s High Holy Days extortion plan, cops volition beryllium upping patrols by metropolis synagogues and successful Jewish communities. They volition besides beryllium successful changeless interaction with Jewish assemblage leaders to perceive their concerns.

Interim Police Commissioner Thomas Donlon is expected to clasp a property league Wednesday to outline these upgraded information measures during the High Holy Days.