Germany has experienced a surge in antisemitic incidents since Saturday's attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, according to a report.
Nazi symbols and hostile slogans have appeared in various German cities, while Israeli flags have been removed from city halls, as reported by public broadcaster Polish Radio's polskieradio24.pl website.
In Berlin, remains of the Berlin Wall have been defaced with swastikas and anti-Israeli slogans, local police reported, launching an investigation into "incitement, damage to property, and the use of forbidden symbols" on the fragment of the Berlin Wall displayed at the East Side Gallery in Friedrichshain.
These incidents are deemed to violate inalienable rights, including the right to equal treatment, human dignity, and freedom of religion, as per the statement from law enforcement officials.
Similar graffiti has been removed in other parts of Berlin. In Braunschweig, police have detained four teenagers of Arab descent suspected of stealing an Israeli flag from City Hall, which had been hoisted in solidarity with Israel during the ongoing conflict.
Heilbronn faced a similar incident when the original Israeli flag, put up in a show of support, was taken down, prompting city officials to install a new one.
By Thursday morning, approximately 1,200 people had been killed in Israel due to Hamas' deadly attacks over the weekend, as reported by the BBC. In Gaza, a similar number of people have lost their lives since Israel launched retaliatory air strikes, with an additional 338,000 people displaced, according to the British broadcaster. Photo by OneArmedMan, Wikimedia commons.