Three Palestinian students have been shot on North Prospect street in Burlington near the University of Vermont in the US weeks after a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy was stabbed to death, raising alarms against rising Islamophobia in the country.
Reports said that the US media coverage has spread anti-Islamic sentiments since the Israel-Palestine war escalated on October 7 which has killed at least 15000 Palestinians in Gaza.
As per reports, three Palestinian students were shot in what investigators suspect was a hate-motivated crime.
According to police, the victims were speaking Arabic and two of them were wearing a keffiyeh (black-and-white Palestinian headdress) when attacked.
Two were shot in the torso and one in the “lower extremities,” Police added.
