The victim of the Israeli Museum “planned to propose”

Yaron Lischinsky prepared to propose to his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim. He had just bought a engagement ring and wanted to ask for a trip to Jerusalem next week.

But on Wednesday evening in Washington, they were shot by a man who screamed “Free Palestine” outside the Jewish Capital Museum when an event, which was charged by the organizers, made it discussed as a discussion about the Gaza strip crisis that aimed to transform the pain into the purpose.

The colleagues in the Israeli message shocked their deaths, triggered international outrage and prompted the Israeli leaders to blame “increasing hostility” and anti -Semitism after the Hamas attacked the country on October 7, 2023.

The ambassador in Washington Yechiel Leiter praised the couple as a “beautiful couple”.

You should be “engaged,” he said. “The young man bought a ring this week to suggest his girlfriend in Jerusalem next week.”

Sarah Milgrim's father Robert said that his family loved Mr. Lischinsky, and the couple would go to Israel on Sunday to meet his family, he told the US partner CBS News from the BBC.

The 28 -year -old Lischinsky worked in the political department of the message, while Ms. Milgrim, 26, has been part of the public diplomacy department for a year and a half.

He was an Israeli citizen born in German, served in the Israeli defense forces for three years and had a master's degree in government diplomacy and strategy from Reichman University.

He described himself on LinkedIn as “proud to name both Jerusalem and Nuremberg at home” and “to expand the peace circle with our Arab neighbor”.

Friends told the BBC that Mr. Lischinsky was a Christian with great belief in Israel.

Jenny Havemann from Ra'anana, Israel, and said that he was a “beautiful, modest calmer and friendly” man “, part of a Christian Zionist group, and he was very much to bring German and Israelis together”.

Ronen Shoval, another friend, described him as “a very pious Christian” who moved to Israel from Germany. Many people wanted to understand his background. He was a serious Christian creditor. “

Sarah Milgrim “loves Israel and she loved everyone who lived in the Middle East,” said her father Robert.

Several summer in Israel, she spent “bringing them together with Palestinian and Israeli groups to bring them together”, including Tech2peace, an Advocacy group that trains young Palestinians and Israelis and promotes dialogue between them.

“She had many close Palestinian friends and many Israeli friends,” he said.

Tech2peace said Ms. Milgrim was an active volunteer who “brought people together with empathy and purpose”.

“Her commitment to building a better future was obviously in everything she did,” it said. “Your voice and mind are deeply missing.”

According to her LinkedIn profile, Ms. Milgrim had a master's degree in international studies from American University and another in natural resources and sustainable development from the UN University for Peace and a bachelor's degree in Environmental studies from the University of Kansas.

The Israeli message said that his “entire staff was destroyed by the couple's death with a broken heart and in the ground”. “No words can express the depth of our grief and terror about this terrible loss.”

The shootout has led to increased security in Israeli diplomatic missions all over the world.

Death occurs when the war occurs in Gaza, which the nineteenth month after the attack on October 7, 2023 led by Hamas, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

Since then, the military reaction of Israel has killed more than 53,000 people in Gaza Strip, many of them women and children, according to the Health Ministry of the Territory.

Aid agencies and foreign governments, including Great Britain, have warned of an escalating humanitarian disaster, whereby the famine emerges.

Elias Rodriguez, 30, from Chicago, is in custody and is asked about Mr. Lischinsky and Ms. Milgrim's death.