To Netanyahu, who has taken aim at Prime Minister Keir Starmer after the deaths of a young Jewish couple in Washington DC on Thursday. 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez was charged with murder yesterday evening after allegedly killing Israeli embassy staff Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim who planned to get engaged next week in Jerusalem. In a clip addressing the attack, Netanyahu claimed that British, French and Canadian leaders had ‘effectively said they want Hamas to remain in power’. He added about the leaders that they want Israel to ‘stand down and accept that Hamas’s army of mass murderers will survive’.
The remarks by Israel’s prime minister come after the young couple were attacked outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, where they were attending a reception for young Jewish diplomats which centred around discussing ways to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Rodriguez, a left-wing activist, is accused of the murder of foreign officials, causing the death of a person using a firearm and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence – and if found guilty, could face the death penalty.
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