Two staff members at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, were killed Wednesday night near the Capital Jewish Museum, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said.
“Two Israeli Embassy staff were senselessly killed tonight near the Jewish Museum in Washington DC,” Noem said in a post on X. “We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share.”
Two people believed to be connected to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, were shot Wednesday night near the Capital Jewish Museum, according to a source familiar with the situation and a law enforcement source. Another law enforcement source told CNN that two people were killed.
DC Police said its investigating a shooting across the street from the FBI’s Washington Field Office, which is located near the museum. The Israeli embassy is working with law enforcement.
The Israeli ambassador was not involved in the incident and was not at the location when the shooting happened, an embassy spokesperson told CNN.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on social media that she and acting US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro have arrived to the scene of the shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum.
Ted Deutch, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, said his organization was hosting an event at the museum on Wednesday evening.
“We are devastated that an unspeakable act of violence took place outside the venue,” he said in a statement. “At this moment, as we await more information from the police about exactly what transpired, our attention and our hearts are solely with those who were harmed and their families.”
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon reacted to media reports of the shooting on Wednesday, saying in a statement on X, “The fatal shooting that took place outside the event that took place at the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC – in which Israeli embassy employees were also injured – is a depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism.”
Police are advising people to avoid the area in Northwest DC.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter said the two people killed were a young couple about to be engaged, saying the man had purchased a ring this week with the intent to propose next week in Jerusalem.
Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Mike Herzog told Israeli Army Radio that the woman killed was an American employee of the embassy and the man was Israeli.
Yoni Kalin and Katie Kalisher were inside the museum when they heard gunshots and a man came inside looking distressed, they said. Kalin said people came to his aid and brought him water, thinking he needed help, without realizing he was the suspect. When police arrived, he pulled out a red keffiyeh and repeatedly yelled, “Free Palestine,’” Kalin said.
“This event was about humanitarian aid,” Kalin said. “How can we actually help both the people in Gaza and the people in Israel? How can we bring together Muslims and Jews and Christians to work together to actually help innocent people? And then here he is just murdering two people in cold blood.”
https://apnews.com/article/israel-embassy-jewish-museum-shooting-10307b3b1a2a337e76730736b12ebbcb
Who is this guy?
How can we actually help both the people in Gaza and the people in Israel this event was about humanitarian aid
WOW damn I wonder how many people there were pissed off that aid wasn’t being let into Gaza lmao
Oh and HELP the people of Israel? HELLO??? My brother in Christ they have fucking Pilates classes and McDonald’s. How fucking dare you put them in the same fucking category as Gaza you piece of shit
The idea that embassy staff would be attending an event that had the central focus of criticizing Israeli policy(because their position is we should send essentially NO AID) is literally the dumbest shit ever.
Of course what this person actually means is “damn how can we send aid and make sure it doesn’t go to big bad hamas” “man this whole aid thing ah geeze this is so complicated what do we do???” When they very well fucking know that they can just quintuple the amount of aid coming in tomorrow without a problem.
These people are fucking demonic liars and the amount of lies we’re gonna hear broadcasted in the news tomorrow might be too much for me to handle I might just limit my consumption for the first day because I know that’s gonna be the worst one
helping israelis means them spending less time in their musty fuhrerbunkers when the rocket alarms go off
Look; the media already hated us. People were already getting fired over tame statements and censored. The crackdown started 2 years ago. We shouldn’t hide ourselves because of this, we should ask ourselves ‘what does solidarity really mean?’
This reads as low level adventurism to me.
Idk who these people are, but people who work at embassies mostly just file paperwork for passports and visas.
It’s like going to the DMV for a shooting spree under the pretext of “these people serve the US state and federal government.”
It doesn’t seem targeted in any useful way.
I’ve known people who work in embassies and yeah, a lot of those roles are most admin and organisational and accounting rather than being diplomats. But the fact that they were still working for the Israeli government at this point, isn’t like working for the DMV. They’re an essential cog in a genocide machine that only continues to exist and be tolerated because of the diplomatic connections they have with the US, the embassy in question.
It’s adventurism sure, but it is targeted. A high ranking diplomat might have more impact in terms of narrative, but would be just as disposable and replaceable to the Israeli regime. Most ‘diplomats’ for a pariah regime, in a friendly country, are basically just payoff positions for members of the boys club. And if this makes the people who do the actual work of making the mechanism work more likely to want to leave the job, all the better.
Same logic would apply to the Second Intifada or Algerian War bombings, which both worked.
But these events were done inside the occupied country against the occupation force. This will only lead to massive crackdowns on the people opposed to the genocide.
What do you think this is going to work for? You think this has the gravity of those two events?
These are genuine questions. Not being sarcastic.
I think it’s gonna make Israeli functionaries scared to show their faces in public to say the most brazenly fascist shit. Idc if these dudes were just filing paperwork for visas, if they were working at a german embassy in 39 to handle which white guy would get to settle a newly razed piece of Hungary I’d say good fucking riddance, maybe don’t work for nazis.
hasbara bots are seething on reddit. i saw some post about “october 8th when the bodies were still warm!!! 🥺🥺” lmao no clue what that even had to do with these two piggies being put down
fact: if you work for the nazi german goverment you are bad and deserve to be shot in the street like the lowest level of scum that you are
same goes for zionazi israelis 🤷🤷🤷
caused a Japanese court to order the dissolution of the unification church
saved lives by causing a spike in approved health insurance claimsHopefully this does something good
owned lol
That’s awful. Only two?
How convenient for Israel. That’s certainly a Reichtag Burning moment at a time when they are critically sinking in public opinion and less than 24h after they shot at a delegation of 25 diplomats from 31 countries. If this isn’t a classic mossad terror tactic, they must be overjoyed at the luck.
Also mandatory
I would compare it to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan.
Dorothy Thompson’s defense of Grynszpan feels extremely apt:
I am speaking of this boy. Soon he will go on trial. The news is that on top of all this terror, this horror, one more must pay. They say he will go to the guillotine, without a trial by jury, with the rights that any common murderer has… Who is on trial in this case? I say we are all on trial. I say the men of Munich are on trial, who signed a pact without one word of protection for helpless minorities. Whether Herschel Grynszpan lives or not won’t matter much to Herschel. He was prepared to die when he fired those shots. His young life was already ruined. Since then, his heart has been broken into bits by the results of his deed. They say a man is entitled to a trial by a jury of his peers, and a man’s kinsmen rally around him, when he is in trouble. But no kinsman of Herschel’s can defend him. The Nazi government has announced that if any Jews, anywhere in the world, protest at anything that is happening, further oppressive measures will be taken. They are holding every Jew in Germany as a hostage. Therefore, we who are not Jews must speak, speak our sorrow and indignation and disgust in so many voices that they will be heard. This boy has become a symbol, and the responsibility for his deed must be shared by those who caused it
Yes its very unnerving how history repeats itself. Though the dude who did wasnt palestinian in our case.
Going by this comparison we should expect to see articles about how the staffers were actually saints because they only wanted to murder 99% of Palestinians
I love the Free PressTM!
There was an article about how these staffers were actually peace loving no violence both sides people, no?
thats whats so funny about this to me. israel has killed how many people now visiting “their” ”country” from its western allies; with no consequence?
but when two of theirs come here to promote genocide, and they get shot, its the end of the world
fuck them kids!
less than 24h after they shot at a delegation of 25 diplomats from 31 countries.
I haven’t even heard about this yet. Link?
Here : [https://hexbear.net/post/4987694]
In other news at leas 82 Palestinians were killed today
Not to mention the IOF firing at a diplomatic mission in the West Bank earlier today.
They didn’t even deny it, they just said “they were warning shots because the diplomats veered off the approved path”.
only case where this is acceptable
Get Luigi’ed!
“Acts of violence don’t win wars. Neither wars nor revolutions. Terrorism is useful as a start. But then, the people themselves must act.”
I hate Israel so much that i have critical support for climate change. Even human extinction will have one positive. That disgusting genocidal demonic patch of hell called Israel will cease to exist.
I mean, we aren’t going to “fix” climate change anyway. That’s been made apparent
True. At the same time the US and Israel are both completely lost causes. Accelerationism may be the only way out of this system. Does something better come after… who knows but imagine a world where these two cancer countries weren’t there to support all the biggest pieces of shit all over the planet.
It would be a huge improvement just because of how the US military and their proxies are by far the biggest polluters on the planet
Lmao
gottem
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