US-German citizen charged in Tel Aviv US embassy attack attempt
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The 28-year-old was deported from occupied Palestine and taken to New York, where his charges were unsealed.
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Activists sit in front of the US Embassy branch office in Tel Aviv, "Israel", during a protest on Jan. 8, 2025 (AP)
A dual US-German citizen has been arrested and charged with attempting to firebomb a US Embassy branch in Tel Aviv, officials announced Sunday.
According to federal prosecutors in New York, 28-year-old Joseph Neumeyer approached the embassy building on May 19 carrying a backpack filled with Molotov cocktails. He was confronted by a security guard, dropped the bag while fleeing, and was later found and arrested at a nearby hotel.
Court records state that Neumeyer, originally from Colorado, traveled from the US to Canada in early February and arrived in "Israel" in late April. Prosecutors noted he had made threatening posts on social media prior to the incident.
Neumeyer was deported from "Israel" and arrived in New York on Saturday. He appeared before a federal judge in Brooklyn on Sunday, when the charges were unsealed. His court-appointed attorney declined to comment.
The Tel Aviv branch remains operational despite the US Embassy's relocation to occupied al-Quds in 2018, following a controversial decision by then-President Donald Trump.
A holocaust in Gaza: Flames, ash, and 30 charred remains
The attempted attack occurred amid the ongoing war on Gaza, now in its 19th month.
The Israeli occupation has escalated its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, intensifying its assaults on civilians and designated shelter sites in a relentless overnight campaign of destruction. In the early hours of today, as much of the world lay asleep, a devastating inferno engulfed the al-Daraj neighborhood in the heart of Gaza City.
What remains are the charred ruins of a school-turned-shelter, the scorched frames of homes, and a searing image too haunting to forget: a little girl, no older than six, stumbling barefoot through a corridor of flames, her skin scorched, her eyes wide with terror, searching, still alive, for a way out of the Israeli-made holocaust consuming everything around her.
The fire at her heels was no accident. It was born of "Israel's" bunker-busting missiles, deliberately launched at what was clearly marked as a civilian refuge: Fahmi al-Jarjaoui School, packed with forcibly displaced families who had fled Israeli bombs, only to be massacred beneath them.
The school, situated in a densely populated neighborhood, was struck by missiles that pierced the upper floors and detonated on the lower levels, where dozens of displaced civilians had taken shelter, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported. Many of the victims were burned beyond recognition, with charred remains bearing witness to the intensity of the strike, our correspondent stressed.
By dawn, at least 51 Palestinians were confirmed killed. 30 of the bodies were charred. Among them were children, women, and elderly individuals, incinerated in a blaze so intense that, according to local officials, human flesh turned to ash. The school became the epicenter of horror: Dozens of lives erased in a single, calculated act of genocide.
