Authorities in Colorado on Monday were investigating what the FBI described as a " targeted terror attack " in Boulder after a man with a makeshift flamethrower shouted "Free Palestine" and set eight people aflame .

The attack prompted chaos at a pedestrian mall where protesters were calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza. The suspect, identified by authorities as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, was taken into custody, authorities said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday expressed solidarity with the victims who were attacked "simply because they were Jews. " He said he was confident U.S. authorities would prosecute "the cold blood perpetrator to the fullest extent of the law."

"The antisemitic attacks around the world are a direct result of blood libels a

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