After the brutal shooting Young couple outside the capital Jewish museum In Washington, D.C., the Israeli ambassador has attracted attention on both the U.S. and on the global stage.
Two Israeli embassy staff members Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were shot dead while leaving the Jewish game, and the suspect shooter identified as the 31-year-old shooter after Elias Rodriguez From Chicago, shouting, “Free, free Palestine!” Security officers arrested him.
The ode responds to the slogans announced during protests on American university campuses. Yechiel Leiter tagged as “eliminating Israel’s need for elimination” “Special Report” Thursday.
“The big picture is very important to us,” said the Israeli ambassador to the United States. “‘Free, free Palestine’ is actually what he said.’Free, free Palestine’ is part of the hymns heard throughout universities across the country, which includes hymns, from rivers to seas, Palestine will be free, which is basically the need to eliminate Israel’s eliminationists.
Israeli embassy staff killed outside the Jewish Museum in the District of Columbia
Leiter argued that Rodriguez used “free, free Palestine!” Chant showed he allegedly believed “he would implement an elimination policy about Israel by shooting Jews in Washington.”
Rodriguez is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, murdering a foreign official, causing a death by using a firearm, and freeing the firearm in a violent crime.
The shooting is in Israel in Israel in Gaza Strip This week escalated sharply due to growing humanitarian concerns, although this is not a war after the war, and it is not a deadly attack on Israel’s DC Embassy on October 7, 2023.
Who is the suspect in anti-Israel when killing two Israeli embassy staff?
Pro-Palestinian sentiment in the United States develops in the United States due to the ongoing war in Israel on October 7. and Trump administration Leiter has been fighting anti-Semitism, especially on university campuses, criticizing world leaders for “fostering” anti-Israel sentiment.
Leiter told Fox News’ political host Bret Baier that our anger is that we have international leaders like French President Macron who is trying to immediately recognize the Palestinian state, as if the response to October 7 should be called Palestine Liberation Day. ”
“So he is cheering on these odes from this Elias Rodriguez and others.”
Although the charges were announced less than 24 hours after the crime, the crime will be investigated as an act of hate crime and terrorism. US Attorney Washington, DC Jeanine Pirro noted that additional charges may be filed with evidence orders at Thursday’s press conference.
Rodriguez appeared in court Thursday afternoon, where he appointed a lawyer. The judge suggested that he could be punished for life and death.
Piro said Rodriguez waived his right to detain a hearing and admitted to being detained. The preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. on June 18.
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Bradford Betz, Elizabeth Pritchett, Christina Shaw, Alex Nitzberg, David Spunt, Stephen Sorace and Greg Wehner of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
