"My team had put heart and soul into the company and we had a good cry. "
The family members include Mr Soliman's wife, Hayam El Gamal, 41, as well as the couple's 17-year-old daughter, two other daughters and two sons.They are being held at an immigration detention centre in Texas, over 900 miles (1,450km) from their home in Colorado.
Department of Homeland Security officials have said that Mr Soliman arrived in the US on a tourist visa in August 2022. That visa expired the following year. He made an asylum claim in September 2022.According to police documents, the suspect told officials that he "never talked to his wife or his family" about his plans, and that he had left a phone in a desk drawer with messages to his wife and children. His wife turned the phone in to authorities.One of Mr Soliman's daughters was recently awarded a scholarship by a local newspaper in Colorado Springs. A profile in the Gazette newspaper noted she "was born in Egypt but lived in Kuwait for 14 years" and relocated to the US two years ago.
After his arrest, Mr Soliman told police he planned the attack to take place after his daughter's high school graduation, according to the FBI.On Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the agency was "investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack, if they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it".
The judge's order is the latest setback for the Trump administration on immigration.
On Wednesday, another federal judge ruled that over 100 Venezuelan migrants deported to a jail in El Salvador must be given a chance to challenge their removal.It comes amid growing concern over the distribution of aid in Gaza, with more than two million people at risk of starvation, according to the UN, after a total Israeli ban on shipments of food and other aid that lasted 11 weeks.
Aid distribution has recently been taken over by The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an Israel and US-backed group which aims to replace UN agencies and other organisations in the region.Over the past few days,
on the route to an aid distribution site in Gaza run by GHF.The UK's ambassador to the UN Barbara Woodward explained that she voted in favour of the draft resolution because Britain wants the "intolerable situation in Gaza needs to end" and that the country sees a ceasefire as the best way to "achieve a long-term political solution".