Israel kills 6 Palestinians in 24 hours
Rights and Accountability 18 September 2018
Palestinians protest against the Israeli blockade at Erez checkpoint in northern Gaza on 18 September.
APA images
A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli police near the Damascus Gate to Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday night in an alleged stabbing attempt on the start of the Yom Kippur holiday.
Israeli police said that the man charged at a Jewish person, knocking him to the ground, and then ran towards the officers who fired at him while he waved a sharp object.
A Palestinian witness told the AFP news agency that “the alleged attacker was not trying to stab anyone, rather ‘defending himself’ from a Jewish civilian.”
Palestinian media outlets identified the slain man as Muhammad Yousif Alayan from Qalandiya refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah:
Several gunshots can be heard in multiple videos from the scene:
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