{"id":12,"date":"2025-05-22T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/alleged-us-killer-of-israel-embassy-staff-charged-with-murder\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:37:10","slug":"alleged-us-killer-of-israel-embassy-staff-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/alleged-us-killer-of-israel-embassy-staff-charged-with-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged US killer of Israel embassy staff charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elias Rodriguez, 31, shouted &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; as he was taken away by police after the shooting late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum, prosecutors said in a court document. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,&#8221; he told the officers.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago man made an initial court appearance Thursday after being charged with two counts of first-degree murder and murder of foreign officials. If convicted, he could receive the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were investigating the shooting &#8220;as an act of terrorism and as a hate crime,&#8221; Jeanine Pirro, interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I suspect as we go forward&#8230; that there will be more charges added,&#8221; she said, noting that a preliminary hearing was set for June 18.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting triggered international outrage and finger-pointing as Israel&#8217;s foreign minister Gideon Saar blamed European criticism of his country&#8217;s stepped-up Gaza offensive, claiming &#8220;a direct line connecting anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli incitement to this murder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This incitement is also done by leaders and officials of many countries and international organizations, especially from Europe,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>French foreign ministry spokesman Christophe Lemoine called the accusation &#8220;completely outrageous and completely unjustified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cited &#8220;the terrible price of anti-Semitism&#8221; and decried &#8220;wild incitement against the State of Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the shooting, President Donald Trump &#8212; who spoke with Netanyahu on Thursday &#8212; posted on social media that the attack was clearly anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (AFP) \u2013 <\/span>                    The suspect accused of gunning down two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum in Washington was charged Thursday with murder, as international tensions over anti-Semitism erupted over the attack.                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__with-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"t-content__beside-sidebar\" data-article-content>\n<div class=\"t-content__metadata\">\n<div class=\"t-content__dates\">\n<p class=\"m-pub-dates\"><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Issued on: 23\/05\/2025 &#8211; 00:37<\/span><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Modified: 23\/05\/2025 &#8211; 03:44<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a-reading-time\">\n    <span class=\"a-svg a-svg--picto-clock\" title=\"Reading time\"><\/span> 3 min    <span class=\"u-sr-only\">Reading time<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-share-button\" data-root-share>\n<p>                                <i class=\"a-svg a-svg--icon-share\"><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__main-media\">\n<figure class=\"m-figure m-figure--16x9\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"5d0a6a86cae0895fda28c9c05e6ede2fb799099b.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds an Israeli flag in a sign of support outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"m-figure__img lazy\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}