A person pleads guilty on federal accusations

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Muffide Favaz Alhader, 29 years old, with Sneectadi, New -York, was arrested in December 2023 after Shooting two shots And shouts “Free Palestine!” Outside of the Temple Israel in Albana, New -York, a few hours before the start of Hanuka. Alkhader was arrested shortly after the incident, and the court’s documents found that he had informed police in an interview that “events in the Middle East had influenced him.”

Initially, he was accused of possessing a firearm forbidden because of the illegal use of marijuana, the US Prosecutor’s Office in the North District News. Alkhader was also accused of conspiracy to make a false statement when purchasing a firearm through his arrest.

On Tuesday, Alhader pleaded guilty for one calculation for an obstacle to the free exercise of religious beliefs with the threat of force, one of the calculations of the deployment of firearms during the commission of this offense, and one calculating the conspiracy for illegal purchase of firearms.

“The violent, anti -Semitic and horrible act of the defendant focused on the Church of the Israeli Congregation, the greater Jewish community and the right of everyone to practice their religion without fear of violence,” said US prosecutor Carl Friedman.

Alkhader, who is under federal care since his arrest, is planned to be sentenced to June 6. He faces at least seven years before life imprisonment, as well as a term of underestimation of up to five years, according to the US Prosecutor’s Office.

Synagogue kindergarten went closed after the shots were released

Prosecutors said Alhader had taken Uber from his house in Schenectad to the synagogue in the afternoon on December 7, 2023. Then he approached the front stairs of the Israeli temple and removed the gun from the bag before shot two shots in the air shouts: “Free Palestine!” According to the US Prosecutor’s Office.

Alkhader also tried to remove the Israeli flag from the flagship outside the synagogue before leaving the scene, prosecutors said. At the time of the incident, the police chief Eric Hawkins said the officers arrested Alhadera about three minutes after the shots were fired.

According to Hawkins, he was detained in the parking lot of about 300 yards from the synagogue. No one was injured in the incident, but the kindergarten that worked inside the synagogue was forced to be closed.

“Alkhader also significantly disrupted the activity that the Israeli community was planning to celebrate the Hanuki Jewish holiday and forced the congregants to be afraid to return to the place of worship,” the US Prosecutor’s Office reads.

Later, Alkhader confessed to the authorities that he and the other man conspired with each other to illegally buy a gun at a weapon store, the US prosecutor reports.

Prosecutors stated that Andrew Miller – also from Sneectadi – and Alhader went to the federal dealer of firearms in Albana in November 2023, where Miller purchased a gun. Later, Miller gave the shotgun to Alkhader, which was shot beyond the Temple of Israel.

Miller was sentenced to 14 months in prison in October 2024, after which he was released for three years, the US Prosecutor’s Office reports.

Increasing violent incidents since October 7 attacks

Starting on October 7, 2023, people over the US survived Anti -Semitic epithets, Anti -Muslim rhetoric and almost violence in response to the war. Advocacy groups have reported the thorn In cases of hate crimes, including Islamophobia and anti -Semitism.

The Defamation League, which monitors anti -Semitic cases in the United States, recorded more than 10,000 anti -Semitic cases a year after October 7.

At the same time, the Muslim Rights and Advocacy Group in the country is the most in the country, the country is largely in the country that anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian complaints in 2023 exceeded 8000, with almost half of these complaints in the last three months in the last three months the year. The group also documented almost 5000 complaints of discrimination between January and June 2024.

Attacks on October 7 Highly Fighting Conducted Decades And it has caused the Israeli military response, which claimed the lives of more than 46,000 people in gas, according to the Palestinian health authorities. Ceasefire agreement and hostage release was reached last month.

The first stage of the Agreement to last until the beginning of March includes issue 33 hostages Instead release nearly 2000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons. Last week, Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced He began his journey back to the ruins of the Gaza Strip, which they once called home.

Impact: Cybele Mace-Osterman, Kim Helmgaard, Mark Ramirez and Sarah Chernikoff, USA Today