Colorado Terror Attack: 8 Injured At Israeli Hostage March — Illegal Migrant Arrested

A hate-fueled madman launched a “targeted terror attack’’ in Colorado on Sunday — setting at least one woman on fire and injuring eight total as he screamed “Free Palestine” and blasted a “makeshift flamethrower” and Molotov cocktails against a crowd commemorating Israeli hostages still in Gaza, officials said.

Video footage captured the alleged attacker — who FBI officials identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman — in the middle of a tirade about Palestine and calling for death to “Zionists” before he tossed the homemade incendiary devices.

“They are killers! How many children you killed?” the shirtless man, who was reportedly in the country illegally, shouted.

“End Zionists!” he screamed in the clip.

Eight victims between 52 and 88 years old were hospitalized with varying injuries, Boulder police and FBI Denver Special Agent Mark Michalek said.

Four men and four women were wounded in the terror attack. Two were medevaced and at least one was left in critical condition, officials said.

The 88-year-old female victim fled Europe during the Nazis’ reign of terror, Rabbi Israel Wilhelm, the Chabad director at the University of Colorado Boulder, told CBS Colorado.

Soliman, 45, who was arrested at the scene, was also hospitalized, Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn added.

The crazed firebug was holding bottles of a clear liquid while waiting for the group outside the downtown courthouse, said an organizer for the outdoor weekly commemoration Run For Their Lives in Boulder.

He then apparently lit the liquid and chucked the containers at the walkers, striking five people and badly burning one woman who had to roll on the ground to extinguish the flames, the organizer, Miri Kornfeld, told The Post.

Redfearn said calls started flooding 911 shortly after the attack at 1:26 p.m. local time.

“The initial callers indicated that there was a man with a weapon and that people were being set on fire,” Redfearn said at a press conference.

“We were on scene very quickly. When we arrived, we encountered multiple victims that were injured with injuries consistent with burns and other injuries.”

The suspect was “pointed out” by the crowd and taken into custody without incident, Redfearn said.

The FBI will be investigating the situation as an act of terrorism, Michalek confirmed.

“As a result of these preliminary facts, it is clear that this is a targeted act of violence and the FBI is investigating this as an act of terrorism,” he said.

“Sadly, attacks like this are becoming too common across the country. This is an example of how perpetrators of violence continue to threaten communities across our nation,” Michalek added.

The terror suspect, an Egyptian national, had overstayed his visa and was in the country illegally, Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement sources told Fox News.

Soliman allegedly landed in the US at Los Angeles International Airport on Aug. 27, 2022 with an authorized stay through Feb. 26, 2023, but stayed in the country. After filing a claim, he was cleared for work authorization by US Citizenship and Immigration Services on March 29, 2023, which expired this March, according to the outlet.

“The Biden Admin granted the alien a visa and then, when he illegally overstayed, they gave him a work permit,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller wrote on X. “Immigration security is national security. No more hostile migration. Keep them out and send them back.”

The Department of Homeland Security is working alongside the FBI to investigate the “terrorist attack,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem also said just after 7 p.m.

“Our agents and local law enforcement are on the scene already, and we will share updates as more information becomes available.”

The group targeted, Run For Their Lives, asserted that the weekly gathering was “not a protest; it is a peaceful walk to show solidarity with the hostages and their families, and a plea for their release.”

The walk started at 1 p.m. and trailed down Pearl Street and 8th Street before heading to the Pearl Street Mall, where the attack took place. The group was set to stop at the local courthouse for a video as well.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis condemned the attack and assured that he will provide updates when available.

“I am closely monitoring the situation in Boulder, and my thoughts go out to the people who have been injured and impacted by this heinous act of terror. Hate-filled acts of any kind are unacceptable,” Polis wrote in a post on X.

The Anti-Defamation League is also monitoring the attack and noted its timing — mere hours before Shavuot, a Jewish holiday that always takes place seven weeks after Passover’s conclusion, was set to begin at sundown.

In New York City, the NYPD said it will be increasing police presence at religious sites for the duration of Shavuot, according to a post on X.

The attack occurred less than two weeks after a couple was shot dead outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum by a suspect who shouted, “Free, free Palestine!” as he was taken into custody.

The victims, Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26 — a pair of Israeli Embassy workers about to be engaged — were allegedly executed by hate-filled radical Elias Rodriguez, 31.

“Coming so soon after the cold-blooded murders of two Israeli Embassy staff members outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, the Boulder attack serves as yet another chilling indicator of the growing normalization of Jew-hatred worldwide and the failure of too many to draw clear moral lines against the perpetrators of antisemitic violence and those who incite them,” the organization Combat Antisemitism said in a statement.

Rodriguez has been linked to a far-left group known for regularly spewing antisemitic remarks on social media.