On Thursday, Japanese police arrested a man after a car crashed into a barrier near the Israeli embassy in Tokyo, while reports said that the arrested man was a man in his fifties who belonged to a right-wing group.
Local media reported that the accident resulted in a policeman being slightly injured.
The police refused to comment on the incident, while an Israeli embassy official said that the matter was subject to a police investigation and declined to comment further.
Footage broadcast by the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation showed a small black car that was damaged after colliding with a barrier about 100 meters from the embassy building.
A witness also said that security forces closed off the area surrounding the location of the car.
Several pro-Palestinian demonstrations were held in front of Israeli embassies around the world in recent weeks, including Tokyo, to protest the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.
It is noteworthy that Tokyo has taken a more conservative stance than its Western allies, who went far in supporting the Israeli war on Gaza, as the Japanese Foreign Ministry said last October that its country is monitoring the situation in Gaza with concern, adding that all parties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must adhere to the laws. International.
Japan was among 4 countries that voted against a draft resolution submitted by Russia to the Security Council in the wake of the Israeli war on Gaza, calling for a humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation).
