Security heightened at NYC synagogues, Jewish sites in wake of Hamas attack on Israel

The NYPD has ramped up security at Big Apple synagogues and other Jewish sites in the wake of the surprise attack on Israel by radical Hamas militants.

The department’s Critical Response Command was placed on high alert and deployed to sensitive sites in the five boroughs following the military assault Saturday, with heavily armed cops protecting potential terror targets, law-enforcement sources said.

Police have also been deployed to the Israel Consulate in Midtown, the sources said.

Although no specific threats against the city were announced, New York City remains a major potential terror target, as evidenced by the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

“We are aware of the situation and continue to monitor for further developments,” an NYPD spokesperson said in an email Sunday. “At this time there is no known threat nor nexus to New York City.”

In an earlier statement to news outlets, the department said its Counterterrorism and Intelligence Division “consistently works at a level of high alert.”

‘When events from around the world could possibly affect NYC or we get Intel on a threat to NYC, we always increase our presence around houses of worship and certain areas where these conflicts arise.”

The increased vigilance comes after the sudden attack on Israel by the radical Islamist militant group on Saturday – the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War – with thousands of rockets fired into the country.

Authorities estimated at least 600 were killed and some 2,000 were wounded in Israel – with scores of others taken hostage by militants, including Americans, after Hamas crossed into nearly two dozen Israeli towns.

Gaza Strip health officials reported that at least 300 Palestinians were killed and 2,200 injured.

The invasion prompted Israel to declare war as it mobilized to respond to the hostilities on Saturday and into Sunday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordering a call-up of military reservists.

In an online post on Saturday night, Mayor Eric Adams expressed support for Israel.

“New York City has the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel, and we stand side by side with Israel every day — but we do so with extra resolve tonight,” he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The weekend deployment of NYPD counterterrorism units comes just weeks after sources told The Post about plans to slash the Critical Response Command by as much as 75%.

About 240 of the 300 cops assigned to the unit face being sent back to street-level patrol units to fill holes there, according to department sources.