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(22 May 2025)
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Jerusalem - 22 May 2025
1. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar walking to podium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gideon Saar, Israeli Foreign Minister:
“Yaron lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, two young representatives of the State of Israel, were murdered a few hours ago in an horrific terrorist attack in Washington. My condolences go to their families and to the staff of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.”
3. Sign reading (English) “State of Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gideon Saar, Israeli Foreign Minister:
"I spoke this morning with Daniel, Yaron's father. I told him that his son was a warrior on our diplomatic front that felt just like a soldier in the battlefield.”
5. Wide of conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gideon Saar, Israeli Foreign Minister:
“I also spoke with our dear friend, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. Ambassador Huckabee updated me on the intensive investigations underway by several government agencies into this act of terrorism. The most senior officials in the American law enforcement system are closely monitoring this investigation.”
7. Wide of conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gideon Saar, Israeli Foreign Minister:
“This is the direct result of toxic, antisemitic incitement against Israel and Jews around the world that has been going on since the October 7 massacre. Recently, we have witnessed an unprecedented wave of terror attacks and attempts against Israeli missions around the world with an emphasis. Israeli missions and representatives around the world are targets of antisemitic terrorism that has crossed all red lines.”
9. Saar leaving the conference
STORYLINE:
Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish museum, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, police said.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar identified the victims as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. Lischinsky was a research assistant, and Milgrim organized visits and missions to Israel.

They were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum when the suspect approached a group of four people and opened fire, according to police.

The suspect, identified as Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago, was observed pacing outside the museum before the shooting, walked into the museum after the shooting and was detained by event security, police said.

"We have witnessed an unprecedented wave of terror attacks and attempts against Israeli missions around the world with an emphasis,” Saar told reporters in Jerusalem.

"Israeli missions and representatives around the world are targets of antisemitic terrorism that has crossed all red lines.”

The stunning attack prompted Israeli missions to beef up their security.

The shooting comes as Israel has launched another major offensive in the Gaza Strip in a war with Hamas that has heightened tensions across the Middle East and internationally.

Israeli diplomats in the past have been targeted by violence, both by state-backed assailants and Palestinian militants over the decades of the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict that grew out of the founding of Israel in 1948.

The Palestinians seek Gaza and the West Bank for a future state, with east Jerusalem as its capital — lands Israel captured in the 1967 war. However, the peace process between the sides has been stalled for years.

AP video ahot by Moshe Edri

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