Gunned down Israeli Embassy staffer Sarah Milgrim worked on peace-building between Palestinians and Israelis, her grieving father says: ‘That’s the irony’

The father of the bride-to-be who was killed along with her boyfriend near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, said his daughter was working to bring Israeli-Palestinian peace and more aid to Gaza before being gunned down by a suspect who later yelled “Free, free Palestine.”

Sarah Milgrim was gunned down outside of the Capitol Jewish Museum late Wednesday. Sarah Milgrim / Linkedin

Robert Milgrim, 73, said he was heartbroken to learn that his daughter, Sarah Milgrim, 26, and her boyfriend Yaron Lischinsky were killed likely because of their work with the Israeli Embassy on Wednesday night.

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“Last night, she was attending an affair to figure out how to get more aid into Gaza,” Milgrim told The Post.

“The night she was killed, she was trying to help the situation – that’s the irony.”

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