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(NewsNation) — Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, said Thursday that the fatal shooting of 2 Israeli Embassy staffers Wednesday evening successful Washington, D.C., has been a "gut-punch" to the radical of the Middle Eastern nation.
"It has caused radical (in Israel) to conscionable truly wonderment what has happened to this satellite wherever antisemitism has turned from hideous and hateful rhetoric into this level of violence," Huckabee told NewsNation's "Elizabeth Vargas Reports."
Yaron Lischinsky, a 30-year-old Israeli citizen, and Sarah Milgrim, a 26-year-old from Kansas, were killed extracurricular the Capital Jewish Museum pursuing a reception. The couple, who were soon to beryllium engaged, were successful a radical of 4 leaving the lawsuit erstwhile they were approached by a gunman and shot.
Authorities person identified the suspected shooter arsenic 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago. Police accidental aft his arrest, Rodriguez chanted, "Free, escaped Palestine." He appeared successful tribunal Thursday and was charged with first-degree murder and the execution of overseas officials. The FBI volition analyse the killings arsenic a hatred crime, and Rodriguez could look the decease penalty.
The adjacent proceeding successful the lawsuit is scheduled for June 18.
President Donald Trump, who appointed Huckabee ambassador to Israel, wrote connected societal media, "These horrible D.C. killings, based evidently connected antisemitism, indispensable end, NOW! Hatred and Radicalism person nary spot successful the USA."
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to the alleged shooter arsenic a "terrorist," comparing Rodriguez to the Hamas militants who attacked Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023.
"Jewish radical person to consciousness arsenic if there's a level of blind, irrational hate," Huckabee told Vargas, "and I deliberation it's incumbent upon each of america to propulsion backmost hard against this hideous antisemitism that has captured our assemblage campuses, the streets of America and, rather frankly, astir the world."
