A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release from immigration custody of the family of a man charged in a fatal 2025 firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, against demonstrators supporting Israeli hostages in Gaza.

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery in San Antonio said Hayam El Gamal and her five children can be released from a family immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas, as long as El Gamal and her oldest child, who is 18, wear electronic monitoring. Biery denied the government’s request to stay his ruling so it could appeal.

El Gamal was born in Saudi Arabia and is an Egyptian national. She and her family have been in immigration detention since June after her husband, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was accused of throwing two Molotov cocktails at people demonstrating for awareness of Israeli hostages in Gaza. An 82-year-old woman who was injured in the attack later died. El Gamal has said she was shocked by the attack.

Soliman is an Egyptian national who federal authorities say was living in the U.S. illegally. He is being prosecuted in both state and federal court for the attack, which prosecutors say injured a total of 13 people. Investigators say he planned the attack for a year and was driven by a desire “to kill all Zionist people.” He has pleaded not guilty to state charges, including a murder charge, and federal hate crimes charges.

After the attack, the Trump administration claimed the family was being rushed out of the country. The White House said in social media posts that they “COULD BE DEPORTED AS EARLY AS TONIGHT” and that six one-way tickets had been purchased for them, with their “final boarding call coming soon.”

Biery decided to release the family even though an immigration appeals court had dismissed their case to stay and issued a deportation order for them. That came after a federal magistrate judge recommended on Monday that they should be released.

Lawyers for the family claim the deportation order was directed by the “political leadership” in Washington, which the government’s lawyer, Anne Marie Cordova, denied. People who have final deportation orders are normally subject to mandatory detention.

Biery had barred the family from being deported until he could hold Thursday’s hearing. One of the family’s lawyers, Chris Godshall-Bennett, told Biery they will also ask the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to stop the family from being deported while they seek asylum and permission to remain in the United States.

Another federal judge blocked their immediate removal after the attack. Since then, the family has tried several times to be released on bond and return to Colorado while their asylum application is considered.

The magistrate judge recommended this week that they be released after their attorneys argued they have not been treated fairly in immigration proceedings.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – You are invited to take a step into Hawaii’s past with a unique collection of antiques and collectables.

Let’s go holoholo to The Knickknackery Hawaii in Hilo.

Every morning, Keli’I Wilson sets up antiques right outside his shop, the Knickknackery Hawaii, which he co-owns and is a curator for.

“About 11 years ago, me and my partner started collecting a lot of antiques, and we visited this little store in Honoka’a, and we started on a bench outside selling antiques in Honoka’a 11 years ago,” said Wilson. “The lady that we bought from told us that we have a lot, we should try and sell it and see what happens. About 9 months later, we rented the spot next to her shop, and we had a store for the first time in Honoka’a.”

Wilson said they moved to the corner of Haili and Kapiolani Street.

And now, they’re along Ponohawai St. in Hilo.

“So, when we decided we’re going to open up a shop, we wanted to come up with a very cool name, so I scanned through this old Webster’s dictionary from 1913, and I found the meaning of antiques, it was called knickknackery,” said Wilson. “Collecting knickknacks, whatnots, and thingamabobs, things worthy of collecting, that was the meaning in the Webster’s dictionary, and I said, there’s the name right there.”

Wilson said he loves vintage wares, old furniture, and its history.

“It reminds me of my grandma, my aunties that had beautiful Hawaiian things in their old homes,” said Wilson.

In the shop, there are hula animatronics that dance hula, which Wilson said were made for the Kona Seaside Hotel in the 1950s and were displayed outside of their luau show.

There’s lots to see.

Look at Hawaii in the 1900’s through postcards or a trip down memory lane in the 90s.

There are all kinds of collectibles, from books, cameras, and old records.

“Well, it’s immaculate, for one thing, and it’s just beautiful the way everything is displayed,” said Vashti McMurray, who was visiting from Canada.

“I would say it’s like quirky, has like a lot of like life and personality, said Ivy McMurray, who was also visiting from Canada.,

“A lot of the visitors that I get is from off-island, or they’ve lived in the mainland for 20, 30 years, and they come here, and they see all the things that remind them of Hawaii and that’s what I think matters to me, that I put that back out in the world, the hospitality, the beauty, the nostalgia of vintage Hawaii,” said Wilson.