Israel-Palestine war sparks vendetta, US landlord suspected of stabbing to death 6-year-old Muslim boy
(AFP, Washington, 15th) An American landlord suspected of stabbing a Muslim woman and a 6-year-old boy dozens of times was charged today with homicide and hate crimes. Police believe the attack was linked to clashes between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas.
The Will County Sheriff’s Office in Illinois, USA, stated in a statement that the 6-year-old child who was stabbed 26 times died of his injuries. The 32-year-old woman believed to be the child’s mother is expected to survive this “heinous” attack. Survived. The incident occurred yesterday about 64 kilometers west of Chicago.
“Investigators were able to determine that both victims of this brutal attack were targeted because they were Muslims and that the case was also related to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East,” the police statement said. ”.
The Sheriff’s Office did not provide further details or the victim’s nationality, but the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the child was Palestinian-American.
Authorities said the woman managed to call police for help while resisting the attack from her landlord. The Will County Sheriff’s Office said the 71-year-old landlord was named Joseph Czuba.
A Sheriff’s Office statement said they found two victims in a bedroom inside the residence with multiple stab wounds to their chests, torsos and upper limbs.
According to the statement, during the autopsy, a seven-inch serrated military knife was pulled from the boy’s abdomen.
When police arrived, they found Kuzba sitting on the ground near the residence’s driveway with a laceration on his forehead. He was taken to hospital for treatment and later charged with homicide, attempted homicide and two hate crimes.
Ahmed Rehab, director of the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told reporters that while the woman was being treated at the hospital, she sent a message to the child’s father saying, “He knocked on the door and then tried to strangle me and said, ‘You guys All Muslims must die.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a statement that the attack was “our worst nightmare.”
The Hamas armed group broke through the heavily guarded border on the 7th, shooting, stabbing and burning more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians. Israel officially declared war on Hamas the next day.
Israel then launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip, razing local neighborhoods to the ground and killing at least 2,670 people, most of whom were ordinary Palestinians. (Translator: Xu Ruicheng/Verification: Liu Wenyu)
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2023-10-16 03:33:36
