US President Joe Biden said he was “deeply troubled” by reports of an attempted murder by drowning of a Palestinian-American child in May in Texas.
Local media and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reported the May 19 arrest of a 42-year-old woman after an attack in a high-rise swimming pool in the town of Euless. between Dallas and Fort Worth.
After asking the mother, wearing the hijab, if the three-year-old girl and the six-year-old boy in the pool were hers, the woman shouted racist insults at her and tried to drag them into the deep end in the pool. apparent intention to drown them, according to the same sources.
The boy managed to struggle, but the little girl had to be rescued by a man called to the rescue by witnesses, local media said.
President Joe Biden said on his official X account “deeply disturbed” by this apparent murder attempt. “No child should suffer violent attack,” he added.
The war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is causing strong tensions in the United States, particularly on university campuses, and has led to an increase in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic acts.
In November, a man shot and wounded three students of Palestinian origin in Vermont. Additionally, in early October, a six-year-old Muslim boy was stabbed to death near Chicago by a 70-year-old man, a crime directly linked to the ongoing war in Gaza according to police.
