We know the following about the 2 Israeli embassy employees who were killed in Washington, DC: NPR,

Washington – two employees of the Israeli embassy – a young couple who has just been engaged – were shot by a man on Wednesday evening before an event in a Jewish museum who sang “free, free Palestine” after he was arrested by security officers.

Many US and Israeli civil servants identified the attacks as the latest in A Clear increase in anti -Semitic incidents In recent years and in particular how Israel increases its offensive in Gaza, the risk of famine for a population occurs through a blockage for months.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry identified the two victims of the attack on Wednesday evening as Yaron Lischinsky (30) and Sarah Lynn Milgrim (26).

In an interview with reporters, Israel's ambassador to the US Yechiel Head said that the couple would be engaged. “The young man bought a ring this week to suggest his girlfriend in Jerusalem next week,” he said.

So far we know the following.

What happened?

Shortly after 9:00 p.m. Eve, as an event for young diplomats, which was completed by the American Jewish Committee in the Capital Jewish Museum in the city center of DC, a man was observed in front of the building “Stupsen back and forth, said Pamela Smith, chief of police from Metropolitan.

The man approached a group of four people and then opened the fire, said Smith. Two people were killed – a man and a woman who were a couple said officers. Then the shooter entered the museum and was arrested by Event Security, said Smith.

“The suspect sang in custody” free, free Palestine “,” added Smith. The police said they had temporarily identified the suspect as Elias Rodriguez (31) from Chicago. He had no previously known encounters with the police, said Smith. It was not immediately clear whether Rodriguez had a legal representation.

Who were the victims?

The 26-year-old Sarah Milgrim was an American who was born in Kansas, and 30-year-old Yaron Lischinsky originally came from Germany, but emigrated to Israel at the age of 16. According to his LinkedIn profile. According to the Israeli and German governments, he held citizenship in both countries.

“Sarah and Yaron were stolen by us,” said Ted Deutch, Managing Director of the AJC, the organization behind the event that visited the two in the museum. “Moments before they were murdered, they smiled, laughed and comrades an event with colleagues and friends. We are shocked and with a broken heart while we try to process this immense tragedy.”

Milgrim worked in the embassy department for public diplomacy, and Lischinsky was a researcher who focused on the Middle East and North Africa region. In his LinkedIn profile, Lischinsky wrote that he was a “lawyer for interreligious dialogue and intercultural understanding” between Israel and his Arab neighbors.

Milgrim grew up in Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City, and was a member of a reform synagogue, B'nai Jehudah. In a statementThe temple called Milgrim “a dedicated Zionist and a radiant presence in every room that she entered”.

“It stood for something bigger than herself and paid the ultimate price for it,” said the explanation and called for the unit in the community in response to the attack.

The mayor of Kansas City, Quinton Lucas, posted on X about the attack and said: “The people in our region know the pain of religious violence. We pray for his end.” A Jewish community center in Overland Park was that Location of a 2014 filming That killed three people and was later seen as hate crimes through law enforcement.

In an item on X said Shoval Ronen that he had taught Lischinsky at the Argaman Institute in Jerusalem and said that he was “a Christian, a great lover of Israel who immigrated to Israel, served in the army and decided to dedicate his life to the state of Israel and Zionism”.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he spoke to the parents of both victims and said that he “shared her great grief together with the entire people of Israel”.

Who is the suspect?

The suspect was identified as Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, ILB.

He was taken into custody shortly after the shootout and interviewed in the early Thursday by DCS Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI.

Rodriguez was born in Chicago and grew up and lived in the northwestern quarter of Albany Park in an apartment in a quiet, leafy side street.

The windows of an apartment on the second floor, which were believed to be with political signs of the street below. Some signs were for local politicians and causes, but some others spoke out in the war war in Gaza against Hamas. One demanded a ceasefire while another “free Palestine” demanded! In handwritten letters and a third party said “Justice for Wadea”, which refers to Six-year-old Wadea al-FayouumeA Palestinian American who was stabbed to death in his family shortly after October 7, 2023 by Hamas by the landlord of his family.

Rodriguez was an employee of the American Osteopathic Association. In an explanation, the organization said that it was “shocked and sad” that an employee was arrested as a suspect in the attack and said it was fully worked with the investigation.

Steve Jensen called the FBI of the FBI as “hideous crime”. The FBI is investigating “connections to potential terrorism or motivation based on a pre -referred crime or a hate crime,” he said.

Odette Yousef from NPR contributed to this report by Chicago, and Jennifer Ludden from NPR contributed from Washington. Shir David wore from Tel Aviv, Israel.