The man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum told police after his arrest, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” federal authorities said Thursday in announcing charges in the killings they called a targeted act of terrorism.

In the wake of the shooting that left two Israeli Embassy staffers dead, Yuval David, a Washington, D.C.-based Jewish activist, says "far too many people" have ignored the dangers of antisemitism.

Two Israeli embassy staff members were fatally shot as they exited the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, authorities and officials said.

Witnesses to the barbaric shooting of two young Israeli diplomats in Washington, DC, offered comfort to the alleged killer assuming he was a victim in an unmitigated display of humanity at the

The man and the woman were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum near Penn Quarter, Washington DC, and police have warned members of the public to avoid the area