The FBI has identified the suspect who attacked a pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado as Egyptian native Mohamed Sabry Soliman.

The 45-year-old had received a visa and work permit from the Biden administration, as confirmed by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Sunday evening.

‘The Biden Admin granted the alien a visa and then, when he illegally overstayed, they gave him a work permit,’ Miller wrote on X.

‘Immigration security is national security,’ he continued. ‘No more hostile migration. Keep them out and send them back.’

Solimon, aged 45, injured six individuals ranging from 67 to 88, during a firebombing at a demonstration. This event was held to honor the October 7 victims still held captive by Hamas militants in Gaza. 

According to Boulder Police, the incident took place at an event organized by Run For Their Lives on Pearl Street Mall in the city’s downtown around 1:26 p.m. Sunday, coinciding with the start of a Jewish holiday known as Shavuot. 

Shocking videos posted online showed Soliman appearing to taunt the victims while brandishing bottles of alcohol for the Molotov cocktails in each hand as smoke rose from the scene.

Wearing only jeans and sunglasses, he yelled: ‘End Zionists… they are terrorists’ and ‘free Palestine’. He also said: ‘How many children have you killed?’ according to the ADL Center on Extremism. 

EMTs used stretchers to move people into ambulances while flames spread in patches across the ground. Blackened burned-out bottles littered the scene. 

Another video showed what looked like a burn scar across the ground close to the city’s old courthouse. 

Mohamed Sabry Soliman (pictured), 45, has been identified as the suspect who attacked a pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller confirmed Soliman was living in the United States on a work permit

FBI Special Agent in Charge Mark Michalek confirmed the suspect’s identity

FBI Director Kash Patel has called the incident a ‘terror attack’ while Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said it ‘appears to be a hate crime given the group that was targeted’.

Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn told a press conference that victims suffered ‘injuries consistent with burns, and other injuries’ and that wounds ranged from ‘minor’ to ‘potentially life-threatening’.

Law enforcement told NBC just before 8pm that one person was in a critical condition. 

Mark Michalek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Denver field office, told another press conference later on Sunday that witnesses said Soliman used ‘a makeshift flamethrower and threw an incendiary device into the crowd’. 

He was taken into custody ‘without incident,’ Chief Redfearn said.

Soliman, who was wearing sunglasses and jeans with no shirt when he was detained, was also taken to the hospital with ‘minor injuries’. 

Chief Redfearn did not disclose the motivation behind the attack. ‘It would be irresponsible for me to speculate on motive this early on,’ he said. 

Boulder Police were also initially split with the FBI on whether to call the incident a terror attack, with Redfearn saying it was too early to define the incident.   

Soliman appeared to taunt the victims while brandishing bottles of alcohol for the Molotov cocktails in each hand as smoke rose from the scene 

Several people have been injured in a ‘targeted terror attack’ involving Molotov cocktails in Boulder, Colorado

Yet Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said the attack ‘appears to be a hate crime given the group that was targeted.

‘People may have differing views about world events and the Israeli-Hamas conflict, but violence is never the answer to settling differences,’ he added. 

‘Hate has no place in Colorado. We all have the right to peaceably assemble and the freedom to speak our views. 

‘But these violent acts—which are becoming more frequent, brazen and closer to home—must stop and those who commit these horrific acts must be fully held to account.’ 

Weiser added that his ‘thoughts are with those injured and impacted by today’s attack against a group that meets weekly on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall to call for the release of the hostages in Gaza.’

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino also called the incident ‘an act of terror and targeted violence’. 

‘All of the necessary assets will be dedicated to this investigation. If you have any investigative tips please contact the FBI. And if you aided or abetted this attack, we will find you. You cannot hide,’ he wrote on X. 

Meanwhile, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement that he was ‘closely monitoring’ the situation, adding that ‘hate-filled acts of any kind are unacceptable.’ 

Police said Soliman was taken into custody without incident

The Boulder attack occurred as law enforcement authorities in the US grapple with a sharp spike in antisemitic violence. 

It comes just over a week after a man was arrested over the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC on May 22. 

The victims were identified as German-Israeli dual national Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim, 26. 

Lischinsky had been planning to propose to Milgrim after buying a ring. 

The suspect, 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, repeatedly shouted ‘Free Palestine’ after shooting them dead, as police dragged him away. 

Jewish human rights organization the Simon Wiesenthal Center said the Boulder attack came on the eve of a religious holiday. 

‘On the eve of Shavuot, a sacred celebration of Jewish identity and tradition, we are forced yet again to confront a horrifying reality: Being Jewish, supporting Israel, or simply gathering as a community now makes American Jews a target,’ the center’s CEO Jim Berk said.

‘This afternoon in Boulder, Colorado, a man threw a Molotov cocktail into a peaceful solidarity walk calling for the release of 58 hostages still held by Hamas, a humanitarian cause that should unite, not divide.’

He blamed the attack, as well as the murders of the Israeli embassy staffers, on ‘months of anti-Israel propaganda, moral equivocation, and silence in the face of raging antisemitism’. 

‘The nonstop demonization of Israel and Zionism on our campuses, in our streets, and across digital platforms has created a climate where hate flourishes, and physical attacks—even murder—of Jews is inevitable,’ Berk said. 

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.