Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday defended his troopers who shot useless an injured Palestinian in occupied East Jerusalem.
“The officers acted outstandingly, precisely as is required from fighters in an operational scenario like this,” Bennett mentioned in a weekly cupboard assembly.
Mohammad Salimah, 25, was shot useless by Israeli police on Saturday close to the Damascus Gate outdoors Jerusalem’s Previous Metropolis for allegedly finishing up a knife assault.
A video shot by activists confirmed an Israeli police officer capturing Salimah when he was already mendacity on the bottom. One other video confirmed Israeli cops with weapons drawn stopping medics from reaching the injured youth.
The UN Human Rights Workplace (OHCHR) known as the Israeli killing of Salimah an “extra-judicial execution.”
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Bennett, nevertheless, insisted that the video of the capturing was “edited”, saying that “I counsel to everybody: By no means rush to make a judgment in regards to the conduct of officers in advanced operational conditions within the face of terrorism. It is at all times higher to attend a minute.”
For his half, Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister Issawi Frej denounced the deliberate killing of the Palestinian, saying “assailants ought to be shot to avoid wasting lives, to not take (the attackers’) lives once they now not pose a risk.”
Arab-Israeli lawmaker Ayman Odeh, who’s the top of the Joint Checklist, mentioned “opening hearth on an individual who would not pose a risk should be condemned not supported.”
A number of Palestinian and worldwide rights teams have accused Israeli forces of capturing at Palestinians who don’t pose any risk or hazard to them and of being detached in direction of Palestinian lives.
