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Two workers of the Israeli embassy in Washington have been shot and killed exterior an occasion on the Jewish museum within the US capital late on Wednesday.
“Two Israeli Embassy workers have been senselessly killed tonight close to the Jewish Museum in Washington DC,” Kristi Noem, homeland safety secretary, wrote on social media platform X.
She stated the division was investigating and vowed to “deliver this wicked perpetrator to justice”.
Tal Naim Cohen, the spokesperson for the Israeli embassy in Washington, stated the staffers have been “shot this night at shut vary” in a publish on X. She stated they’d been attending “a Jewish occasion” on the museum.
“We’ve got full religion in regulation enforcement authorities on each the native and federal ranges to apprehend the shooter and defend Israel’s representatives and Jewish communities all through the US,” she added.
FBI director Kash Patel wrote that he and his staff had been briefed on the incident. “Whereas we’re working with MPD [the Metropolitan Police Department] to reply and study extra, within the fast, please pray for the victims and their households,” he wrote. “We’ll hold the general public up to date as we’re ready.”
Lawyer-general Pam Bondi wrote on X that she was on the scene of the “horrible capturing.”
Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, known as the capturing “a wicked act of anti-Semitic terrorism”.
“Harming the Jewish neighborhood is crossing a purple line,” he wrote on X. “Israel will proceed to behave resolutely to guard its residents and representatives — in all places on the planet.”
Chuck Schumer, the Democratic chief within the Senate, stated on X: “This sickening capturing appears to be one other horrific occasion of antisemitism which as we all know is all too rampant in our society.”
