USA, three Palestinian students injured by gunfire in Vermont | "Possible hate crime"

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In Use three students Universities of Palestinian origin They were wounded Filmed on Saturday evening in Burlington, Vermont on the way to a family dinner. As American media report, the attack is being investigated as closely as possible “hate crime”. Meanwhile, the head of the Palestinian mission in Britain, Husam Zomlot, has identified the three victims as Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ahmed and Kinnan Abdalhamid, who are enrolled at Brown, Haverford and Trinity universities, respectively.

They wore the Palestinian keffiyeh Zomlot also claimed on X that each of them was wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh at the time of the attack. Meanwhile, the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee further wrote “A man was shouting and harassing the victims,” ​​it added. The students were taken to the University of Vermont Medical Center for treatment.

One student suffered serious injuries Of the three students, police said, “two are stable, while one sustained significantly more serious injuries.” The three were walking on Prospect Street while visiting a relative in Burlington for Thanksgiving when “they were confronted by a white male armed with a gun who fired at least four shots without speaking and likely fled on foot.” , investigators announced. The FBI agreed to investigate the incident.