JERUSALEM, May 20, 2015 (WAFA) – A Palestinian was fatally shot on Wednesday by Israeli police for allegedly attempting to run over two Israeli police officers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Tur, according to Israeli media sources.
They reported that Israeli police fatally shot Imran Abu Dhaim, age 41, for purportedly attempting to run over two Israeli police officers.
Meanwhile, witnesses at the scene denied Israeli allegations, stating that Abu Dhaim was attempting to make a sharp turn and lost control over the car, running over two policemen, who sustained light to moderate injuries and were transferred to hospital for treatment.
Israeli police acted immediately and shot Abu Dhaim at the scene of the incident.
Whereas Israel determines car crashes by Israeli drivers as a traffic accident even without careful investigation, it considers similar crashes by Palestinians as ‘terrorist attacks,’ upon which shooting and killing orders are easily taken without concluding proper investigations, depriving Palestinians of the right to a fair trial.
On October 23, 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.
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 as a “terrorist act” by the Israeli side.
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 ‘unintentional.
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.
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