In the US, three Palestinian college students were shot
According to the report, three Palestinian college students were shot on Saturday night in Burlington City, Vermont, in the United States.
After spending Thanksgiving with a relative in Burlington, the students were reportedly strolling along Prospect Street when “they were confronted by a white man with a handgun.”
According to a police statement released on Sunday and cited by CNN, the victims—two of whom are US citizens and one a lawful resident—were brought to the University of Vermont Medical Center for medical attention.
According to the police announcement, “two are stable, while one has sustained much more serious injuries.”
Police added, “He fired at least four rounds from the pistol without saying anything and is thought to have fled on foot.”
They also said that two of the kids stood out for wearing traditional Palestinian scarves, known as keffiyehs.
Two kids reportedly had injuries to their torsos, while one student sustained injuries to their “lower extremities,” according to the reports.
“There is no additional information to suggest the suspect’s motive,” according to the authorities.
Additionally, according to Burlington police, ballistic evidence was found by investigators from the incident and will be added to a federal database.
According to reports, the FBI said that it was “prepared to investigate” the event on Sunday.
The gunman or gunmen have not yet been located or identified, according to CNN, and the police are “at the earliest stages of investigating this crime.”
The relatives of the victims asked law authorities to look into the incident as a possible hate crime in a joint statement.
They said, “Until the shooter is brought to justice, we will not be comfortable.”
“No family should ever have to go through this kind of suffering. They said, “Our kids are hardworking learners who ought to be free to concentrate on their education and on their futures.
CNN said that the victims were Hisham Awartani, a student at Brown University in Rhode Island; Kinnan Abdalhamid, a student at Haverford College in Pennsylvania; and Tahseen Ahmad, a student at Trinity College in Connecticut, according to a statement released by the Institute for Middle East Understanding.
The episode occurs in the context of rising tensions and hate crimes in the United States in the weeks after the October 7 assault by Hamas on Israel, for which Israel launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip in retaliation.
A 6-year-old Palestinian-American child was fatally stabbed by his family’s landlord earlier in October; yet, the police classified the incident as a hate crime, as CNN reports.
