This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel Military engagements. Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip Military engagements. Impacts and repercussions. Other theaters Red Sea crisis. Attacks on U. Israel—Hezbollah conflict. Iran—Israel proxy conflict. Assassinations and deaths of prominent individuals. Following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October and the outbreak of the Gaza war , there has been a surge of antisemitism around the world.
On 8 October , an Egyptian police officer shot and killed two Israeli tourists and an Egyptian tour guide in Alexandria , Egypt. On 19 October , the walls of the promenade in Sea Point in Cape Town were marked with graffiti referencing the nascent conflict. A Jewish man walking to synagogue in the Johannesburg suburb of Sydenham was accosted by a male jogger screaming antisemitic insults at him.
The jogger then assaulted the man, by knocking him over, kicking and punching him while he lay on the ground. A charge of assault has been laid at Sandringham Police Station.
On January 12, , Jewish cricket player David Teeger was stripped of the captaincy of the under cricket team by Cricket South Africa. On 18 October , the El Hamma synagogue of El Hamma , Tunisia , which is a Jewish pilgrimage site and contains the tomb of 16th-century Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Ma'aravi, was severely damaged during anti-Israel riots, with hundreds of people filmed setting fire to the building.
On 15 November , unknown assailants set fire to the Mordechai Navi Synagogue in Yerevan and disseminated the arson attack on social media.
