The war between Hamas and IsraelDossierSince the beginning of the war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas, the United States, and in particular New York and its region in the northeast of the country, have been rocked by a series of demonstrations, tensions and sporadic violence.
The Democratic governor of the state of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, home to hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Jews, “assured the Muslim community and believers of all faiths that everything would be done to ensure their safety” after the shooting death of an imam on Wednesday in front of a mosque in Newark, near New York.
Those responsible for investigating the death of Hassan Sharif, a Newark local who also worked as a security guard at Newark International Airport, have ruled out a racist crime and the possibility of “terrorism” related to racist killings by white supremacists.
“We do not yet know the motive for this crime (but) the evidence collected so far does not indicate an act motivated by prejudice or domestic terrorism,” the prosecutor said during a press conference. General of the State of New Jersey (equivalent to local attorney general, editor's note), Matthew Platkin.
In Newark, an industrial and multicultural city west of Manhattan, across the Hudson River. Hassan Sharif was hit by several bullets fired on the street at dawn on Wednesday and died in hospital in the afternoon.
The New Jersey branch of the American Muslim Defense Association Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) organized a rally at the Newark Mosque to demand “the handover of the shooters against Hassan Sharif” to the authorities. The group “advised all mosques to keep their doors open but remain cautious given the recent rise in intolerance and bigotry against Muslims.”
Since the beginning of the Gaza war between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas, the United States, and particularly New York and its region in the northeast of the country, have been rocked by a series of demonstrations, community tensions and some sporadic acts of violence. .
New York City alone has a population of 8.5 million, has nearly two million Jewish Americans, the second largest population after Israel, and hundreds of thousands of Muslims.