Police in the Canadian city of Montreal are investigating the firebombing of a Jewish community centre, Al Jazeera reports.

Authorities say they received a report that a Molotov cocktail had been thrown through the front door window of the Jewish Community Council of Montreal at about 1am on Monday. No one was injured in the attack.

Montreal police Chief Fady Dagher said on Monday that the city had experienced an unprecedented number of hate incidents targeting the Muslim and Jewish communities since the start of the conflict in Gaza.