2 Israeli Embassy Staff Killed
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin met with one of the slain Israeli Embassy staffers earlier in May, posting to social media that he is “heartbroken" over her tragic shooting by a “Jew-hating radical.
The President led U.S. lawmakers in condemning the killings and said they were "based obviously on antisemitism."
STORY: These two Israeli embassy staffers were killed by a lone gunman, while leaving an event outside Washington, D.C.’s Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night, officials said.Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were soon to be engaged,
U.S. authorities called the shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., an “act of terror” and identified the suspect as Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago.
But the interwoven lives of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were brutally cut short Wednesday evening, when the two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot while leaving a young diplomats’ reception at the Capital Jewish Museum. The suspect shouted “Free Palestine” as he was being arrested, a witness said.
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President Trump condemned the attack on Israeli Embassy staff in D.C. as a pro-Palestinian suspect has been arrested. Leaders have vowed justice and support for the Jewish community.
The morning after the shooting of two members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night, university protests in Chicago against the Israel-Hamas war continued.