Israeli prime minister defends capturing of injured Palestinian – Center East Monitor

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 stated 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 law enforcement officials 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, nonetheless, insisted that the video of the capturing was “edited”, saying that “I recommend to everybody: By no means rush to make a judgment concerning the habits of officers in complicated 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 must be shot to avoid wasting lives, to not take (the attackers’) lives after they not pose a menace.”

Arab-Israeli lawmaker Ayman Odeh, who’s the pinnacle of the Joint Record, stated “opening fireplace on an individual who would not pose a menace 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 menace or hazard to them and of being detached in direction of Palestinian lives.