2 Israeli embassy staff shot dead outside D.C. Jewish museum
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A pro-Palestinian man is in custody after allegedly killing two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. late Wednesday. Police said the victims were a young couple who were about to be engaged.
The man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum told police after his arrest, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” federal authorities said Thursday in announcing charges in the killings they called a targeted act of terrorism.
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The Forward on MSNFollowing DC shooting, NYC mayoral candidates address issues critical to Jewish community at a town hallWhen New York City’s leading Democratic mayoral candidates convened Thursday evening for a Jewish town hall, many of their minds were on another city. The event took place about a month before the June 24 primary that is likely to decide the city’s next mayor.
Baltimore Jewish leaders and residents are “shocked,” “heartbroken” and “outraged” about two Israeli Embassy staff members being gunned down in Washington on Wednesday night.
The man and the woman were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum near Penn Quarter, Washington DC, and police have warned members of the public to avoid the area
Two people, a man and a woman, have been shot near an FBI field office in Washington, D.C., authorities have said. The shooting happened around 9:15 p.m. on the 300 block of F St NW – outside the Capital Jewish museum – on Wednesday evening,
Couple Sarah Milgram and Yaron Lischinsky “were in the prime of their lives” before they were shot dead near a Jewish museum.