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The two staff of the Israeli embassy were taken out of the Jewish Museum in the center of Washington DC by a man who says police he shouted “free, free Palestines” after the attack.

Victims, young couple, are shot while leaving the event in the Main Jewish Museum, said DC police, adding to the incident.

The shooting occurred at 21:05 Local time (01:05 GMT) in the area with numerous tourist sites, museums and government buildings, including the FBI Fingonal Office.

After the suspect, the authorities were detained, they opened fire, entered the museum and stopped him security, said the Metropolitan Chief of the Pamel Smith Police Department.

Suspect, Elias Rodriguez, 30, from Chicago, saw pacing outside the museum before opening a fire on a group of four – killing a couple, said SMITH on the news.

The police “did not have previous interactions” with the suspect, she added.

“We don’t see anything in his background that would put it on our radar.”

The Israeli Ambassador in the USA Yechiel Leiter shared at the conference that a couple was killed planned to engage.

Mr. Leiter said that he bought the male victim this week a ring and planned to propose on the journey they planned Jerusalem. The names of the victims were not released.

“We heard gunshots and then a guy saw really trouble. We needed help,” said the eyewitness Katie Kalisher for the BBC, referring to the suspect.

Jojo Kalin, a member of the U.S. Jewish Committee, who helped organize the event, said that she did not testify to the shooting, but he felt a “feeling of guilt” about what happened.

“I won’t lose humanity because of it or be distracted. And that the Israelis and Palestinians continue to deserve self-determination and (it’s only deeply ironic that we talked about it,” she said.

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that murders were driven by anti-Semitism.

“These awful DC kills, obviously on anti-Semitism, must end, now! Hatred and radicalism do not have a place in the US,” he wrote on the social platform of the truth.

In post on the X, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said “we will follow those responsible and bring them in justice.”

The Ambassador of Israel in the United Nations called on the incident “deproofed act of anti-Semitic terrorism”.

“Savings of diplomats and the Jewish community cross the red line”, at the X. “Ambassador Danny Danon wrote to X.” We are convinced that American authorities will take a strong action against those responsible for this crime. “

The incident initiated a large police response and closed several core streets in the city.

Spokesperson of the Israeli Embassy Tal Naim Cohen confirmed that two staff members are shot “at the close range” as they attend the event in the museum.

The embassy had “full faith” for the authorities to “protect representatives of Israel and the Jewish community across the United States,” he said.

The Israeli ambassador was reportedly not at the museum event at the time of the shooting, the American media reported.

The DC campus of the university Georgetown is also temporarily locked, according to the CBS.

“When we went to leave the cops and safety are down and they told us that we couldn’t leave,” said one student, who was on locking in the building for more than an hour.

The main Jewish Museum like many other Jewish institutions in the United States fought with security issues in the middle of growing anti-Semitism.

“Jewish institutions throughout the city, across the country, is worried about the safety due to some very frightening incidents that some institutions are also facing the climate of anti-Semitism”, executive director Beatrice Gurwitz said NBC News In a separate news report before the attack on Wednesday.

The museum recently received a grant for making his security partly, she said, because of the new exhibit about LGBT pride.

“We recognize that there are also threats associated with this,” said Mrs. Gurwitz. “And again, we want to ensure that our space is so welcome and safe for everyone who comes here while we explore those stories.”

The American ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee announced in X to call the attack “terror-act of terror that the people of Israel be awakened this morning.”