The United States condemned the terrorist attack on Wednesday by a Palestinian who rammed his car into pedestrians in Jerusalem, killing a three-month-old baby and injuring eight others.
“We express our deepest condolences to the family of the baby, reportedly an American citizen, who was killed in this despicable attack,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.
“We urge all sides to maintain calm and avoid escalating tensions in the wake of this incident.”
It was later confirmed that the baby girl killed in the attack, Chaya Zissel Braun, was an American citizen.
Officials did not release her parents’ names. "The parents are a young couple," Reuters quoted an uncle of the couple as saying. "They are Americans and they came to live here. He came to learn here in the Yeshiva.