The diplomats were shot dead on Wednesday night when they left an event at the Jewish Capital Museum in the center of Washington DC, where the American Jewish committee was organizing a reception.
They were identified as Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, who were about to be compromised, according to officials and relatives. A suspect was arrested.
Justice and sympathy
“The Secretary General reiterates his constant conviction of attacks against diplomatic officials,” said the statement.
He asked that the author be taken before justice and extended his sympathies to the families and loved ones of the victims and the Government of Israel.
The suspicious lonely, identified as Elias Rodríguez de Chicago, was arrested shortly after the murders.
Pro-Palestinian slogans shouted while he was in custody, according to media reports.
An ‘atmith atrocious act’
The head of a UN platform that promotes intercultural dialogue and understanding also expressed his strong condemnation.
“This atrocious anti -Semitic act is unacceptable and unjustifiable. My thoughts go with their families, their colleagues and the state of Israel,” said Miguel Ángel Moratinos, high representative of the United Nations Civilizations Alliance (UNAOC).
Virginia Gamba, the UN Special Advisor on the prevention of genocide, requested the end of anti -Semitism saying that “there is no place in the world in which an anti -Semitic hate crime as horrible as the murders of Mr. Yaron Lischinsky and Miss Sarah Milgrim can justify.”
Superior politicians around the world have also expressed their sentence.
The murders occurred in the context of the war in Gaza, which began on October 7, 2023 after the attacks led by Hamas against Israel that left approximately 1,200 people dead while another 250 were taken as hostages. According to health authorities, they have killed more than 53,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar described the attack as “the direct consequence of virulent and toxic anti -Semitic rhetoric against Israel and Jewish communities around the world that has been happening since October 7”.
‘An unbearable loss’
Mr. Lischinsky was an investigation assistant in the political department of the Israeli embassy in Washington, while Mrs. Milgrim organized trips to Israel, according to media reports.
They were killed after attending the annual reception of young diplomats of the American Jewish committee that this year focused on the response to humanitarian crises throughout the Middle East and Africa of the North.
The spokesman for the Israeli embassy in Washington, Tal Naim, described his death as “an unbearable loss.”
She tweeted a photo of the couple under a message that said that “instead of walking down the hall, we are walking with you to your graves.”