The Aporia
The Aporia
Abdullah Albadri, 34, from Kuwait, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 20 years after attempting to attack the Israeli embassy in London's Kensington Palace Gardens on April 28, 2025. Armed police stopped him when he tried to scale an 8-foot metal fence armed with two knives. Albadri had previously entered the UK twice by small boat and was refused asylum both times; he was sleeping rough before his arrest. He told police he wanted to commit a crime inside the embassy as "revenge" for Israeli actions in Gaza, where children were killed. The court heard that Albadri was motivated by Palestinian deaths in Gaza and had researched the embassy's location beforehand.
A failed asylum seeker who tried to break into London’s Israeli embassy to launch a knife attack has been jailed for life.
Kuwait-born Abdullah Albadri, 34, was tackled by armed police after he jumped onto a fence at the embassy in Kensington, west London, armed with two 4in knives in April last year.
Wearing a keffiyeh wrapped around his head and sunglasses, he had tried to get into the grounds to “exact revenge” for the killing of children in Gaza, the Old Bailey heard.
