JERUSALEM, November 5, 2014 (WAFA) – Israeli police on Wednesday shot dead a Palestinian driver after he lost control of his car, running over army and police officers, killing a Border Police officer and injuring at least 10 others, according to media sources.

The driver, Ibrahim Akkari, lost control of his vehicle, causing it to ram into a crowd of Israeli officers while present on the seam line between west Jerusalem and the city's annexed Arab east. Israeli police chased him and shot him with live bullets in the head and the neck, killing him on the spot.  

“Police described the incident, which took place on the seam line between west Jerusalem and the city's annexed Arab east, as a 'hit and run terror attack,' reported media sources.

Whereas Israel refers to car crashes by Israeli drivers as a traffic accident, it considers any such crashes by Palestinians as a ‘terrorist attack,’ upon which shooting and killing orders are easily taken, depriving Palestinians of the right to a fair trial.

On October 23^rd, Israeli police also shot and killed a Palestinian after his car hit a group of Israelis standing at a train station in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah; police fired the first bullet, which brought the driver, Abdul-Rahman Shaloudi, 20, to a halt, then fired another bullet after which he fell to the ground and another three bullets were shot at him even though he was lying on the street, unarmed, injured, and unable to move, causing his death minutes later.

The incident was declared by the Israeli side as “a terrorist act.”

Meanwhile on October 19, an Israeli settler deliberately ran over two Palestinian kindergarten girls near Ramallah, killing one of them and seriously injuring the other, yet there were no reports of any police action against him. The Israeli side declared the incident as ‘an unintentional accident’.

On October 29, the Palestinian foreign ministry issued a statement denouncing Israel’s discriminatory treatment of Palestinians and Israelis, stressing that Israel follows an obvious discrimination policy in handling incidents committed by Israelis.

Israel declares such incidents, when committed by Palestinians, as 'terror acts' without concluding proper investigations.

M.N./T.R.