The man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum told police after his arrest, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” federal authorities said Thursday in announcing charges in the killings they called a targeted act of terrorism.

Midwest head of Anti-Defamation League says antisemitic rhetoric “is a major problem here in Chicago,” following fatal shootings allegedly by Chicago man.

Sarah Milgrim, 26, and Yarn Lischinsky, 30, were leaving an event at the museum hosted by the American Jewish Committee when the gunman opened fire, authorities said. The suspect, Elias Rodriguez, 30, from Chicago, chanted, “Free, free Palestine” as police hauled him off in handcuffs.