Three prominent Palestinian college students were shot Saturday while walking to a family dinner in Vermont — the victims of a horrific, one-sided attack, according to Palestinian and Arab-American officials.
All three men, including Harvard and Brown University students, were wearing the traditional Keffiyeh headscarf when they were wounded, said Husam Zomlot, head of the Palestinian mission in the United Kingdom. on air on X on Sunday.
“Three young Palestinian men, Hiham Awartani, Tahseen Ali and Kenan Abdulhamid, students at Yale and other universities, were shot last night on their way to a family dinner in Burlington,” Zomlot wrote.
“Their crime? Wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh,” he said. “They were seriously injured.”
The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee said the victims were all in their 20s and identified Awartani as a student at Brown, Abdalhamid at Harvard, and Ali, whom they identified by the last name Ahmed, at Trinity University.
“All three victims survived the initial shooting, however, two of them are now in the ICU and one of the students has very critical and serious injuries,” ADC said in a statement.
Palestinian college students Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ali and Kenan Abdulhamid were shot while walking down a street in Vermont on Saturday.X/@hzomlot
The three men were walking along Jalan Prospek Utara in the state capital around 6:30 pm when they were shot, according to KPTZ-TV News.
The victim was rushed to the University of Vermont Medical Center, while the shooter remains at large.
KPTZ did not identify the victims as Palestinians, but Zomlot and Arab-American branches and organizations said they were and denounced the incident as a targeted attack on Palestinians as the Israel-Hamas war rages.
“After examining the initial information provided we have reason to believe this shooting happened because the victim was an Arab,” said the ADC.
Hisham Awartani, one of the injured students, is recovering from his injuries. Instagram/Hisham Awartani Tahseen Ali (left) and Kenan Abdulhamid were among three Palestinian students shot in Vermont on Saturday. Instagram/Hisham Awartani
It did not identify any of the victims as Yale students, despite Zomlot’s post on X.
The ADC said the students were speaking Arabic when the gunmen shouted at them and opened fire.
“We pray for the victim’s full recovery and will be ready to support the family in any way necessary,” ADC National Executive Director Abed Ayoub said in a statement Sunday.
“The surge in anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian sentiment that we are experiencing is unprecedented, and this is another example of hatred turning violent,” Ayoub added.
The October 7 sneak terrorist attack on Israel by Palestinian Hamas terrorists – and subsequent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip – has sparked antisemitic and sometimes anti-Arab violence in the US.
US college campuses in particular have been hotbeds of unrest, including Ivy League schools.
On Saturday, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters flooded Columbus Circle in Manhattan, at one point dragging burning Israeli flags down the street while denouncing the Jewish state.
The shooting of three Palestinian students in Vermont was condemned by Arab-Americans as an alleged hate crime. Instagram/@palmun.xiii
Last week, a Queens public school teacher was forced to lock herself in her classroom when a group of pro-Palestinian students hounded her over a pro-Israel Facebook post — an incident that New York Mayor Eric Adams called a “vile display of antisemitism. .”
Last month, a Brooklyn man was also allegedly beaten by a group of pro-Israel men after shouting, “Free Palestine!” according to a WPIX-TV News report.
The Burlington Vermont Police Department inn did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Post about Saturday’s shooting.
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