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Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum

A suspect is in custody after shooting dead two Israeli embassy staff outside a Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday night.

The gunman, named by police as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, approached a group of four people leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum and opened fire, killing Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.

Metropolitan police chief Pamela Smith said the shooter had been pacing outside the museum, which is steps away from the FBI’s field office, before the shooting.

After killing the pair, who officials said were a couple, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said.

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[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 9 points 51 minutes ago (1 children)

Genuinely awful for these two and their families, but the same can be said for ~53,000 dead Palestinians and the rest who are actively starving to death in a Israeli-made famine while aid rots onboard trucks across the border. Both acts are deliberate, and both were avoidable.

And while they were both working for the current extremists in power atm via the diplomatic service, they were a lot more moderate too:

Lischinsky “I’m an ardent believer in the vision that was outlined in the Abraham Accords and believe that expanding the circle of peace with our Arab neighbours and pursuing regional cooperation is in the best interest of the state of Israel and the Middle East as a whole. To this end, I advocate for interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding.”

Milgrim organised visits and missions to Israel. She was also a volunteer at Tech2Peace, an advocacy group training young Palestinians and Israelis and promoting dialogue between them.

Tech2Peace said Milgrim was an active volunteer who “brought people together with empathy and purpose”.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

TBH, with views like those, maybe Israel killed these two as well.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 18 minutes ago

Darn it had to be a Hispanic person.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

ITT: People fine with innocents being murdered because of their ethnicity.

Fucking hypocrites.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 57 minutes ago

I blame the killer!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

A woman who attended the event, Katie Kalisher, told CBS News that she encountered the alleged shooter right after hearing gunfire.

"Then this man comes in … but he was covered in rain and just looking really distressed and scared," Kalisher told "CBS Mornings." "We were comforting him because we thought that he was just somebody out in the street looking for a safe place to stay because he heard some gunshots."

She said she talked to him to try to help him relax. "I asked him, 'So, do you like the museum?' And he's kind of playing dumb with me," she said about the interaction. "He goes, 'Oh, what kind of museum is this?' I told him, 'It's a Jewish museum.' He asked, 'Do you think that's why they did this attack' … referring to the rounds that we heard."

She said she told him she didn't think so and asked if he was OK. Then, she said, "He reaches into his bag and pulls out a keffiyeh and says, 'I did it. I did it for Gaza.' And, just starts shouting, 'Free Palestine.'"

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Israel makes Jewish people around the world less safe when it claimed it would do the opposite.

Odd though that out of 5 people he got two staffers. Seems he was trying to specifically get isreali employees.
I do feel for the innocents who get targetted... on both sides.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 73 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

It sucks that more people died. It also sucks that I feel so.....indifferent about this one.

How many Israelis have to die before they stop killing Palestinians? What's two lives compared to the hundreds ended daily in Gaza? It's hard to be sad.

These people probably weren't evil. At worst, they were complicit after being fed a lifetime of propaganda. And nothing will change because of this so there's no silver lining. It's hard to be happy.

If I feel anything, it's dread at how the story will be spun. But even then...whatever happens isn't going to be the worse than what's already happening.

So it's hard to care at all. And that's the sad part for me.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

i know how you feel, it's just like the thousands of other terrorist acts against Jews over the centuries

[–] its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

The government of Israel is evil.
These people worked for the embassy.

We can't condemn people in broad terms. That is what started this. Killing someone because of their nationally, race, or job, is wrong. It's more senseless killing, adding to the hundreds of Palestinians killed.

Guard yourself against seeing individuals as the enemy, when their only sin is where they were born.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Guard yourself against seeing individuals as the enemy, when their only sin is where they were born.

Kansas City?

[–] bishbosh@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Killing someone because of their nationally, race, or job, is wrong.

One of these things is not like the others.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

That's exact what I'm trying to say - they didn't deserve to die and nothing good will come from it.

I will admit I WAS happy about the UHC CEO because he was directly involved in the decisionmaking that led to suffering. But this one doesn't feel like vengeance - until I hear otherwise, these were just two people caught in the crossfire. Bullets should be flying at Netanyahu and his cronies, not embassy employees.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 38 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

After killing the pair, who officials said were a couple, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said.

Certainly plausible...

But I don't trust the police or embassy officials from a country that's spent years committing a genocide.

They're not trustworthy witnesses.

If anyone is upset about that and wants it to change, you should go tell the cops and Israel to stop murdering people and then claiming it was self defense.

When you lie about shit constantly, people just stop taking your word on shit

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Video is all over the news of this happening. Suffice to say the conservatives/Israelis are now winning the propaganda war in the US with this event.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

TIL reporting on a terrorist attack is "propaganda"

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 27 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They've been winning it for a long time because multiple governments around the world have outlawed dissent in a lot of different ways. This event isn't going to change anybody's opinions on the underlying conflict it's just going to make everyone dig in deeper.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

You're not wrong, but it's also an indication of just how thoroughly the Israelis have destroyed their credibility/moral high ground that my immediate thought after reading your comment was that maybe the shooter was Mossad doing a false-flag operation to manufacture that result.

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (16 children)

Facilitating a genocide shouldn’t be a safe endeavor. Fuck these assholes.

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[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

I really wish the world would go back to peacetime

[–] Gointhefridge@lemm.ee 24 points 7 hours ago

Peace for whom? As far as I can tell since Nakba, the Palestinian people have not really had peace. Additional many other countries are often suffering under the boot of colonialism.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

Latest figures are that 61,700 have been killed in Gaza since Oct 7th 2023, so a bit of napkin maths suggest we are 3% of the way towards peace in Gaza through the IDF's preferred method.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

These numbers in Gaza are always undercounted. It counts direct acts of violence mostly, for people not still buried under rubble, and skips many deaths from lack of medicine, sickness, famine, complications etc.

Estimated deaths was about 200k many months ago, according to studies published in reputable newspapers. I have no clue how high it is now, has to be over 300,000 people at least

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[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (4 children)
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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

Free Palestine!

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