Israelis Among Casualties Of Saturday’s Synagogue Attack
Two Israelis were among the Jews injured at the end of the week assault on a synagogue in California that killed one individual and harmed three others, an authority said Sunday.
An Israeli remote service representative said an eight-year-old young lady and her 31-year-old uncle injured in the shooting assault in Poway, north of San Diego, on Saturday were from a southern town flanking the Gaza Strip.
“The two moved from Sderot to San Diego a couple of years back,” representative Emmanuel Nahshon said in an announcement, taking note of their condition was “great.”
San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said both were injured by shrapnel in the assault on the last day of the week-long Jewish occasion of Passover.
A 60-year-elderly person was slaughtered in the assault, with the community’s rabbi injured too.
Israeli Diaspora Minister Naftali Bennett called the killed lady, Lori Gilbert Kaye, “a Jewish legend” who tossed herself “in the way of the killer’s slugs to spare the life of the rabbi.”
Carnage recognized the suspect, who was captured in the wake of escaping the scene, as 19-year-old John Earnest and said he had no earlier capture record.
US President Donald Trump censured the shooting as a “detest wrongdoing”.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called the assault “one more excruciating update that enemy of Semitism and scorn of Jews are still with us, all over the place.”
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