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Two Israeli Embassy staff were shot dead outside the Jewish Museum in the center of Washington, who a person who states that after the attack shouted “free, free Palestine”.
The victims, the young couple, were shot dead, leaving the event at the Metropolitan Museum, the DC police said, adding that the incident looks aimed at.
The shooting took place at 21:05 local time (1:05 GMT) in the area with numerous tourist sites, museums and state buildings, including the FBI office in Washington.
After the suspect detained by the authorities opened the fire, he entered the museum and stopped security, said the head of the capital police.
The suspect, 30 -year -old Chicago Elias Rodriguez, was noticed as he walked around the museum before opening a fire group of four -killing the couples, said Smith chief at a press conference.
Police “did not have any previous interactions” with the suspect, she added.
“We don’t see anything in his background that would put it on our radar.”
Israel’s Ambassador to the US Leiter shared at a conference that had been killed by a couple.
Mr. Litter said that the man had purchased a ring this week and planned to offer on the trip they planned to Jerusalem. The victim names were not released.
“We heard the shots, and then the guy came, looking very unpleasant. We thought he needed help,” Katie Kalisher’s eyewitness, referring to the suspect, said.
Jojo Kalin, a member of the Council of the American Jewish Committee, who helped organize the event, stated that she did not witness the shooting, but felt “guilty” about what happened.
“I am not going to lose my humanity for it or scare away. And that Israelis and the Palestinians still deserve self-determination and (this) is just deeply ironic that this is what we discussed,” she said.
US President Donald Trump suggested that the killings were due to anti -Semitism.
“These horrible permanent current killings, based on anti -Semitism, should end, now! Hate and radicalism do not take place in the US,” he wrote on the social platform of truth.
In a message on X, US Secretary of State Mark Rubio said that “we will find those who respond and bring them to justice.”
The Israeli Ambassador called the United Nations an incident “a dissolved act of anti -Semitic terrorism.”
“Diplomats and the Jewish community cross the red line,” Ambassador Danny Danan wrote on X. “We are convinced that the US authorities will take strong measures against those responsible for this crime.”
The incident caused a serious police response and closed several major streets in the city.
The Israeli Embassy Press Socialist Tal Naim Cohen confirmed that two employees were shot “at close distance” while attending the event at the museum.
The embassy was “full of faith” that the authorities defend representatives of Israel and Jewish communities throughout the United States, “he said.
Israeli ambassador was reportedly not at a museum event during the shooting, the US media reports.
The Georgetown’s DC campus was also temporarily blocked, CBS reports.
“When we went to leave the police, and security were below and told us that we could not leave,” said one student who was closing in his building for more than an hour.
The Metropolitan Museum, like many other Jewish institutions in the US, fought security issues against the background of anti -Semitism growth.
“Jewish institutes across the city, all over the country, concerned about the safety of the very terrible cases that some institutions have encountered, and the climate of anti -Semitism,” Executive Director Beatrice Gurwitz said NBC NEWS In a separate news report before the attack on Wednesday.
Recently, the museum received a grant for security updates partly, she said from the new exhibit on the LGBT -Gonar.
“We admit that there are also threats related to that,” said Ms. Gurwitz. “And again, we want to make sure that our space was as welcoming and safe for all who come here while we study these stories.”
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Hakabi sent X to call an attack “a horrific act of terror that the people of Israel wake up this morning.”
