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Friday, February 21, 2025

Haitian-American legislator condemns “terrorist attack” on Israel

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498 days ago
20231011
Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn

Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn

Hait­ian-Amer­i­can leg­is­la­tor, Rod­neyse Bi­chotte Her­me­lyn, has con­demned the “ter­ror­ist at­tack” on Is­rael and that her heart aches for the hun­dreds of lives lost dur­ing the “bru­tal as­sault.

“I pray for re­cov­ery of the thou­sands wound­ed and the safe re­turn of the ab­duct­ed Is­raelis. I stand in solemn sol­i­dar­i­ty with Is­rael and all its peo­ple who have lost loved ones, while un­equiv­o­cal­ly de­nounc­ing these ap­palling at­tacks per­pe­trat­ed by Hamas,” Bi­chotte Her­me­lyn, the daugh­ter of Hait­ian im­mi­grants, told the Caribbean Me­dia Cor­po­ra­tion (CMC).

“New York hous­es the largest Jew­ish pop­u­la­tion out­side of Is­rael, and my deep sym­pa­thy goes out to our af­fect­ed com­mu­ni­ties and neigh­bors dur­ing this trag­ic time,” added Bi­chotte Her­me­lyn, chair of the Brook­lyn De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, who al­so rep­re­sents the 42nd As­sem­bly Dis­trict in Brook­lyn.

“This un­fath­omable as­sault on in­no­cent civil­ians – on one of the holi­est Jew­ish hol­i­days – is an atro­cious act of cow­ardice. I join our na­tion in con­demn­ing this in­hu­mane ter­ror­ist at­tack against the Jew­ish peo­ple in their home­land, as we of­fer our ut­most sup­port.”

New York Gov­er­nor Kathy Hochul an­nounced that flags on State build­ings will be flown at half-staff in­def­i­nite­ly start­ing on Wednes­day in re­mem­brance of the lives lost as a re­sult of the re­cent ter­ror­ist at­tacks against the State of Is­rael.

“New York stands in sol­i­dar­i­ty with Is­rael and the Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty. I am proud to serve as Gov­er­nor of the State that is home to the largest Jew­ish pop­u­la­tion out­side of Is­rael, and I am com­mit­ted to do­ing every­thing in my pow­er to make sure that this com­mu­ni­ty is sup­port­ed and pro­tect­ed to­day and every day,” she said.

In the wake of last week’s ter­ror­ist at­tacks in Is­rael, Hochul di­rect­ed the New York State Po­lice to in­crease pa­trols and out­reach, and re­it­er­at­ed calls for so­cial me­dia com­pa­nies to strength­en plat­form mod­er­a­tion in or­der to pre­vent the pro­lif­er­a­tion of hate­ful con­tent.

Hochul al­so di­rect­ed New York State land­marks to be il­lu­mi­nat­ed blue and white in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the State of Is­rael.

US Pres­i­dent Joseph Biden said in a White House state­ment “as we con­tin­ue to ac­count for the hor­rors of the ap­palling ter­ror­ist as­sault against Is­rael…and the hun­dreds of in­no­cent civil­ians who were mur­dered, we are see­ing the im­mense scale and reach of this tragedy.

“My heart goes out to every fam­i­ly im­pact­ed by the hor­ri­ble events of the past few days. The pain these fam­i­lies have en­dured, the enor­mi­ty of their loss, and the agony of those still await­ing in­for­ma­tion is un­fath­omable,” Biden added.

NEW YORK, Oct 11, CMC –

CMC/nk/2023

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