Florida man arrested after shooting 2 Israelis, says he thought they were Palestinians

A man in Miami Beach has been arrested after shooting at a car in which he said he saw “two Palestinians” inside.

However, reports indicate that the victims were actually Jewish Israelis visiting the US, not Palestinians.

Mordechai Brafman, 27, has been arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder after he shot at the car 17 times with a semiautomatic handgun.

According to the arrest report, Brafman said that while he was driving his truck, “he saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both.”

Neither victim was killed. One was hit in the left shoulder, while the other’s forearm was grazed by a bullet.

According to reports in Israel, including a post on Facebook by a man who claims to be one of the victims, the targets of the attack were a Jewish Israeli father and son who originally thought that it was an antisemitic attack.