Man Convicted of Attempted Knife Attack on London Israeli Embassy; Nun Assaulted in Jerusalem

A London court found Abdullah Albadri, 34, guilty of preparing terrorist acts and possessing two bladed articles after he tried to scale the Israeli embassy's fence with knives on April 28, 2025. The Old Bailey jury reached a majority verdict following nearly 14 hours of deliberation on May 1, 2026.

Israeli police arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of racially motivated assault after he pushed a French Catholic nun to the ground and kicked her near Jerusalem's Old City on April 28, 2026.

U.K. via small boat from France on April 12, 2025, marking his second illegal Channel crossing in four years. He had previously claimed asylum in August 2021 but returned to France inadvertently.

After being denied accommodation on April 16, 2025, as his application was treated as a further submission, Albadri slept rough and borrowed lodging from the Kuwaiti community in London. He copied a verse titled 'the benefit of martyrdom,' later found on him during arrest.

Wearing a red and white traditional Arabic scarf wrapped around his head and sunglasses, he walked for an hour to the embassy in Kensington, praying throughout the journey.

Upon arrival, Albadri saluted two diplomatic protection officers and jumped onto the 8ft-high railings. PC Nicholas Cox and PC Libby Chessor grabbed him, freed his stuck foot, and dragged him to the ground. Five officers, including one in plain clothes with a handgun, held him down and handcuffed him.

He asked, 'I want to make a crime inside there. Why are you stopping me? ' Officers discovered the martyrdom note and two red and white-handled knives with 10cm blades on him. Albadri's father, a police officer, funded his schooling, but his Bedoon ethnicity barred him from higher education, leading him to activism and five years in Kuwaiti prison.