US President Joe Biden received a report on the Texas synagogue hostage situation. informed White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Twitter.
“Senior members of the national security team are in contact with federal law enforcement officials,” she said.
The office of the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs is in touch with the Jewish community in Texas and is monitoring the situation, told its head Nachman Shai on Twitter.
An unknown person took hostage visitors to the synagogue in Texas
An unidentified person took hostage the parishioners of the synagogue of the Beth Israel congregation in Colleyville, Texas, during the morning service. They include a rabbi and three others, a source at the scene told ABC News. The man claims to have planted the bombs. The area was cordoned off, residents were evacuated. Negotiators from the FBI arrived at the scene.
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