The Israeli embassy in Washington condemned an attack involving a gunman at the Holocaust museum here Wednesday in the US capital. 'We are shocked and saddened by todays shooting incident at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The Embassy of Israel condemns this attack and is closely following the situation,' it said in a statement. Police said the gunman and a security guard had been wounded in the shooting which triggered panic in the heart of Washington's tourist area. Fox News and other US television networks said the gunman was an 88-year-old man with links to white supremacist groups. They said the gunman had been identified as James von Brunn, a Maryland resident, who has been tied to hate groups and anti-government organizations and served a prison sentence for taking a gun into the Federal Reserve. 