The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says eight people have been injured in Boulder City in the US state of Colorado after a man allegedly threw an incendiary device into a rally held for Israeli captives in war-torn Gaza.
On Monday, a 45-year-old man identified by the FBI as Mohamed Sabry Soliman used a “makeshift flamethrower” that burned multiple victims during the march. According to the FBI, the suspect also threw a Molotov cocktail into the crowd.
Boulder police said eight people, 4 men and 4 women, were injured and taken to area hospitals.
The FBI special agent in charge of the investigation, Mike Michalek, said Soliman had been allegedly heard yelling “free Palestine” during the attack.
Michalek told reporters that it was “clear this is a targeted act of violence” and was being investigated as an act of terrorism.
However, Boulder’s chief of police Steve Redfearn told reporters that it was too early to discuss a motive but witnesses were being interviewed.
Regarding Soliman’s possible motives, Redfearn added, “It would be irresponsible for me to speculate on motive this early on.”
Boulder is a university city of about 105,000 people on the northwest edge of Denver, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
The attack follows the fatal shooting of two Israeli regime employees in Washington DC two weeks ago.
Tensions over the US involvement in the Israeli regime’s genocidal war on Gaza have been boiling over to various parts of the American society.
There has been a significant increase in the number of anti-Israeli demonstrations across the US, as well as moves by supporters of Israel to brand pro-Palestinian protesters as anti-Semitic.
President Donald Trump’s administration has detained pro-Palestinian protesters without charge and pulled funding from elite universities that have permitted pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Since October 7, 2023 when the Israeli regime began its genocidal war in Gaza, more than 54,400 Palestinians have been killed and over 124,100 others injured, most of whom are children and women.
