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(Reuters) – Three Palestinian college students attending U.S. schools had been shot on Saturday evening in Burlington (NYSE:), Vermont, and had been being handled for accidents on Sunday, in accordance with the scholars’ former faculty within the West Financial institution.
Ramallah Associates Faculty stated in a Fb (NASDAQ:) put up on Sunday that three of its graduates had been shot close to the College of Vermont Campus – Hisham Awartani, who attends Brown College in Rhode Island, Kinnan Abdel Hamid, who attends Haverford School in Pennsylvania, and Tahseen Ahmed, who attends Trinity School in Connecticut.
The college stated all had survived, with various severity of accidents.
“We extend our thoughts and prayers to them and their families for a full recovery, especially considering the severity of injuries — as Hisham has been shot in the back, Tahseen in the chest, and Kinnan with minor injuries,” the Fb put up stated.
Burlington Police stated in an announcement late on Saturday that officers had responded to calls of pictures fired round 6:30 p.m. (2330 GMT) on Saturday evening and located two folks injured at one location close to the college campus and a 3rd a brief distance away.
With out figuring out the victims, the police assertion stated the primary two had been handled on scene after which transported to the College of Vermont Medical Middle by the hearth division, and police introduced the third to the identical hospital.
Police had not recognized nor apprehended the shooter, the assertion stated. A police spokesperson couldn’t instantly be reached on Sunday.
The taking pictures comes because the U.S. is witnessing a surge in Islamophobic and antisemitic incidents, together with violent assaults and on-line harassment, for the reason that Israel-Hamas battle erupted on Oct. 7.
The scholars had been talking Arabic and sporting the standard Palestinian keffiyeh, the Palestinian international ministry stated on Sunday, calling on U.S. authorities to carry these accountable to account.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a U.S.-based advocacy group, referred to as on state and federal legislation enforcement to research the taking pictures as a hate crime in an announcement on Sunday.
“The surge in anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian sentiment we are experiencing is unprecedented, and this is another example of that hate turning violent,” ADC Nationwide Government Director Abed Ayoub stated.
