New anti-Israel attack in the United States: in Boulder, in Coloradoa man was arrested for the launch of Molotov against a procession in support of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip. Six injuries, all aged between 67 and 88 years old, of which at least one in serious condition. The attacker who was taken to the hospital is also slightly injured.
The FBI spoke of “Targeted terrorist act” Against the ‘Boulder Run for Their Lives’, a weekly appointment of the Jewish community promoted by the Anti-Defamation League. In a video the middle -aged man, identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, appears to be bare torso and with two Molotovs in his hand while he screams “free Palestine”. The attacker would not be connected to any political organization.
This anti -Semitic attack comes after the incendiary one against the residence of the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania, the democrat Josh Shapiro, and the killing of a couple of Jews who worked at the Israeli embassy at the exit of the Jewish Museum in Washington.
Some of the people who participated in the event in Pearl Street, a pedestrian shopping road, were wrapped in the flames after the explosion of the incendiary legal. The Anti-Defamation League, an organization that fights against anti-Semitism, stressed that the attack took place on the eve of the Shavuot holidays reminiscent of the delivery of the Torah to the Jewish people on Mount Sinai.
Boulder is a city of 100 thousand inhabitants about forty kilometers north-west of Denver. “Terrorism has not placed in our great country,” the American secretary of state, Marco Rubio wrote on social media. A spokesman for the Department of Justice has assured that the author of the attack “will be pursued with all the rigor of justice”.
A hard condemnation also came from Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon “:” Terrorism against Jews is not confined to the border with Gaza “, he observed,” burns in the streets of the United States “.
The democratic governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, spoke of “atrocious attack” and said that “deeds full of hatred of any kind are unacceptable”.
“We are grieved and heartbroken,” said Boulder’s Jewish community in a note, “our heart is aimed at those who witnessed this terrible attack and pray for a speedy healing for the injured”.