The shooter has been arrested….
His words after the shooting….“free, free Palestine” ….
The Middle East comes to American Capital….
Israel’s X account identified the victims as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim. Israeli government officials said Thursday that Lischinsky was a research assistant in the Israeli Embassy’s political department and Milgrim organized missions and visits to Israel.
Lischinsky and Milgrim were “in the prime of their lives” and planning to get married, said the Israeli Embassy and its spokeswoman Tal Naim. “Instead of walking you down the aisle, we are walking with you to your graves,” Naim wrote Thursday on X.
US Muslim group condemns killing of Israel embassy workers
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers does not represent the Palestine solidarity movement in the United States.
“We condemn last night’s deadly attack on Israeli embassy employees in Washington, DC,” CAIR said in a statement.
“While millions of Americans feel extreme frustration at the sight of the Israeli government slaughtering Palestinian men, women and children on a daily basis with weapons paid for with our taxpayer dollars, political violence is an unacceptable crime and is not the answer.”