Two officials said that two employees of the Israeli embassy, a man and a woman, were killed when they were killed on Wednesday night as they left the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC.
Two law enforcement sources told CBS News that an Israeli diplomat and an employee at the Israeli embassy was shot while leaving an event in the museum. The sources said that the shooting appears to be a targeted attack.
Two people who are aware of the investigation said the suspect is believed to be the shooter in the reservation. Two sources said that the shooter shouted “Free Palestine” before the shooting.
“Two employees of the Israeli embassy were killed tonight in an indisputable manner near the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC,” Detrand Secretary Christie Nom. books On x.
The sources said that other employees of the Israeli embassy who were at this event were also injured. The shooting was on the F Street, near the Federal Investigation Office.
“Two employees at the Israeli embassy were shot this evening in a distance while attending a Jewish event at the Jewish capital museum in Washington, DC,” a spokesman for the Israeli embassy, Tal Nayem Cohen books On x.
Danny Donnon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, too books In a post on social media, the shooting “outside the event that occurred in the Jewish Museum.”
Danon wrote that two other employees of the Israeli embassy were injured in the shooting, but this number was not confirmed by the authorities.
The shooting at approximately 9:15 pm local time near the FBI building in the 300 -Street NW building, said the DC CBS News.
The officials said that the respondents arrived at the scene of the accident to find the victims with fiery wounds, unconscious and not breathing.
US Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi wrote on X that she was “at the terrible place of shooting outside the Washington Museum of Jewish.”
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Cash Patel books On social media, I was briefed on “my team” in the shooting tonight in the center of the capital, outside the Jewish capital museum and near our field office in Washington, “Patel said that the FBI was working with the Metropolitan police in the investigation.
“There is no ongoing threat to public safety,” the FBI Field Bureau Books on x.
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