2023-10-16 05:57:11
Washington: President Joe Biden has expressed his shock at the incident in which a Palestinian boy was stabbed to death by a supporter of Israel in the United States. In a statement, Biden said this horrific act of hate has no place in America.
It goes once morest our core values of who we are. The boy’s Palestinian Muslim family came to America seeking refuge to live, study and pray in peace. “As Americans, we must reject Islamophobia and all forms of bigotry and hatred,” Baden said. American first lady Jill Biden also expressed shock at the incident.
A 71-year-old assailant stabbed to death a six-year-old boy named Wadia Al-Fayoum of the family living on the ground floor of his house. Joseph M. Chooba stabbed the child 26 times, including in the chest. Wadia’s mother Hanan Shahin is undergoing treatment in critical condition. The 32-year-old girl was stabbed more than ten times by the assailant.
We are shocked and disturbed to learn that a landlord in Chicago expressing anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian views broke into a Muslim family’s apartment and attacked them with a knife, injuring the mother and killing her 6-year-old son, Wadea Al-Fayoume. @cairchicago will hold a… pic.twitter.com/N0ILuevq4n
— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) October 15, 2023
The shocking incident unfolded in Plainfield Township, Illinois. Will County police said in a statement that they believed the two men were Muslim and were angered by the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Middle East.
Joseph Chuba was arrested on hate crime charges, Will County police said. Mother Hanan Shahin said the attack was carried out by shouting ‘You Muslims must die’.
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