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.
they will use anything to crack down on the movement. they already basically consider anyone who acknowledges Palestinian humanity to be a terrorist. the pace of a reaction is not governed by the conduct of the people who are facing the reaction, but by the radicalisation of those who carry it out and the ability of the targetted group to resist it, and right now the average zionist is as radical and depraved as the average SS commando
Yet there was no need to go behind the party’s back and greatly accelerate the speed of that repression. This act will not end the genocide, even worse now they and their western allies are going to be more emboldened. One of the few organizations dedicated to actual good in this country is very likely on the chopping block, its members now targeted to be put into the camps in el salvador, robbing them of the chance to potentially plan an escape or some other method of harm reduction.
How many vulnerable people have been condemned to death by this very act? The issue isnt with killing two rando zionazis and it shouldn’t be.
PSL have not had any contact with this guy since 2017, why are you suggesting he's in any way linked to them? Why are you repeating the enemy's lies?
You think they care? This association he has with the PSL is already ground enough for them to do whatever repression they want. They will never stop and consider every single sandcoorn of nuance that lie between them and getting you (american left) into jail.
This isnt andor, there is no guarantee for victory. This act was done in the name of self-indulgency. The true sacrifice that we as revolutionaries have to make is putting our feelings second to whats best to actually achieve our goals. The western left OWES it to the people of Palestine and yemen and lebanon to be an actual efficient force.
I am so ready to vote
If thats your takeaway then I am sorry for you.
If you haven't been anticipating this escalation, then you and your party need to start now.