A special wish and Los Angeles police are working to increase patrols outside the Jewish worship in response to Sunday’s attack in Buldir, where, according to the police, a man used a temporary launcher on a burning apparatus in a crowd of Jewish demonstrators. Eight people were injured.
“What happened in Bulder, Colorado – brutally targeting the elders – is a terrible insult to the fabric of our society and our beliefs here in Los Angeles,” Los Angeles Karen Bass said in a statement.
Bass said that she would hold a meeting in emergency situations after Shavot ended, a Jewish holiday that started at sunset on Sunday and ends on Tuesday evening. She said, “It will not be tolerated with anti -Semitism in this city.”
The authorities said that the striker, which was identified by the FBI (the FBI “in the name of Muhammad Sabri Suleiman, the targeted demonstrators of a volunteer group called Run for Life, which organizes the events of Run and Walk to call for the immediate release of the Israeli hostages who have been in Gaza since the beginning of the Israeli war of Hamas in 2023.
The group gathered at the Pearl Street Center, a four -block area in the city center that tourists and the University of Colorado Bolder students.
Mark Michelk, the private agent responsible for the Denver Field Office at the FBI, said that Suleiman was screaming “Palestine Free”.
The authorities said that four women and four men between the ages of 52 to 88 years were transferred to the hospital due to lifeless injuries. Suleiman was arrested and transferred to the hospital for treatment, but the authorities did not explain his injuries.
The FBI is investigating the attack as a targeted terrorist act.
“This represents the second violent attack on Jewish civilians and supporters of Israel in the United States in less than two weeks-an escalation of chilling that cannot be rejected as a coincidence,” based in Los Angeles Simon Fennad Center He said in a statement, referring to the slaughter of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, DC on May 21. “Both attacks are the direct result of months of anti -Israel propaganda, moral reward, and silence in the face of anti -Semitism.”
The Israeli war began in Gaza when the militants led by Hamas in southern Israel stormed on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and kidnapped about 250 others.
Israel’s military response has killed more than 54,000 people in Gaza in Hamas, most of them are women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which does not say the number of civilians or fighters. The attack destroyed vast areas, explained about 90 % of the population and left people almost completely dependent on international aid.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.