A boy of Palestinian origin killed and woman wounded in the US state of Illinois

Washington, SANA- An American child of Palestinian origin was killed and a woman was stabbed by a seventy-year-old American man in Will County, Illinois.

According to AFP, the US authorities charged a seventy-year-old man with murder and committing a hate crime on Sunday after he stabbed a child to death and a woman who was renting a house he owned, in light of the current conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The child, who was stabbed 26 times, died in the hospital, while the 32-year-old woman, believed to be his mother, is recovering, according to a statement issued by the district mayor’s office.

According to the statement, the two victims of this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect because of the ongoing war in Palestine.

Manar Salameh / Ruaa al-Jazaeri