The US Department of Justice has accused the murder and other crimes of a man on Thursday, who is suspected of shooting two workers of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. According to the AP report, TASR reports this.
Sarah Milgrim and Jaron Lišinski are the victims of the shooting occurred on Wednesday evening before the Jewish Museum in Washington. They both worked at the Israeli Embassy in the American capital, in private they formed a few and in the coming days they were planning to engage in Jerusalem. Immediately before the attack, they participated in an event focused on searching for humanitarian solutions during the war in the Gaza Strip.
Suspected in the case is 30-year-old Elias Rodriquez of Chicago in Illinois. The authorities claim that Rodriquez entered the Jewish Museum after shooting, was detained by security guards and He shouted “freedom of Palestine” while arrested. In addition to the murder of the first stage, he was also accused of murdering foreign officials, causing death by a firearm and its use in a violent crime.
Shooting took place at a time when Israel launched another extensive offensive in the Gaza band against the militant Hamas movement, which, according to AP, increased tensions throughout the Middle East and internationally. From the profiles of the victims of shooting on the LinkedIn network according to the media show that 30-year-old Lišinski worked at the political department of the Embassy in Washington as an assistant in researching the Middle East and North Africa. He moved to Israel from Germany as a 16-year-old. He was also holding a German passport.
Milgrim has worked for the Department of Public Diplomacy at the Embassy since November 2023. Previously, she worked for the NGO of Tech2Peace, where she worked on building the Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation through technology. Both were, according to their friends and acquaintances from the organizations they belonged to, determined to cement relationships between Arabs and Jews in the hope of ending the bloodshed In the Middle East, Reuters wrote.
The director of the Federal Investigation Office (FBI) Kash Patel was called the murder of Fox and Milgrim as a terrorist act and an example of targeted anti -Semitic violence. The Minister of Justice of the US Pam Bondi told reporters that the suspect probably acted alone.
According to the media, a manifesto with the signed Rodriguez name appeared on the Internet, according to the media, which was published on Wednesday evening shortly before shooting on an anonymous account on the X Network. The manifesto writes to condemn the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians and a discussion of the morality of “armed” activity. Its authenticity is currently the subject of investigation.
