Two staff members at the Israeli embassy in Washington are shot dead near a Jewish museum.

The shooting took place late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum, which was hosting an American Jewish Committee event at the time of the incident.

US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the deaths in an X post, saying, “We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share.”

The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriquez of Chicago, Illinois, “chanted 'Free, free Palestine,’ while in custody,” she added.

    • nun@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      I mean he’s still a civilian and it it’s still murder but yeah hard to feel sad about it

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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        3 months ago

        He served in the IDF for three years before his current role. Now he worked diplomatically for the Apartheid to aid in ethnically cleansing all Palestinians.

        It is truly terrible that this person who dedicated his life to dispossessing and murdering Palestinians was killed.

        • nun@lemm.ee
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          3 months ago

          Literally the opposite of what I said. How do you go from ‘hard to feel sad about it’ to ‘ it’s truly terrible’?

          • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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            3 months ago

            Well he was but a simple innocent civilian enthousiastically participating in the genocide of all Palestinians. Killing such an innocent person is inexcusable.

            • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              3 months ago

              “You don’t understand, the people working on the Death Star just had a job to do and to follow its orders. It’s not any one of their fault that it blew up planets. RIP the brave workers on the Death Star I and Death Star II.”