Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem stated Monday that President Trump had requested her to go to Israel for a whirlwind journey as a present of solidarity after two Israeli embassy workers had been gunned down in Washington DC final week.
Noem provided up Trump’s condolences after Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky — a younger couple who had been about to get engaged — had been shot lifeless by a suspected anti-Israel terrorist final Wednesday.
“President Trump extends his greetings and his grief to all of you and he stands with you as we struggle this hatred on the earth,” Noem stated at a information convention early Monday with Israeli International Minister Gideon Saar.
She added that Milgrim and Lischinsky’s lives “will deliver a unity amongst us that may assist us defeat our enemies.”
Her remarks got here after Noem had met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday.
Her jaunt in Israel adopted a cease over in Bahrain the place she visited a naval base — assembly with coast guard personnel, serving meals and signing autographs.
The glammed-up Homeland Safety was pictured touring the historic Qal’at al-Bahrain Fort on camelback earlier than holding a sit-down assembly with Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on the Sakhir Royal Palace.
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