Israeli forces today shot and injured a mute and deaf Palestinian man at Qalandiya checkpoint located between Jerusalem and Ramallah, according to witnesses and Israeli reports.
Witnesses said Israeli security guards opened fire at an elderly Palestinian as he walked the car lane of the checkpoint injuring him in the leg.
Israeli forces shot and injured a mute and deaf Palestinian at Qalandia checkpointhttps://t.co/HeVwV66ZAn
— The New Arab (@The_NewArab) August 17, 2020
The army closed the checkpoint and evacuated the injured Palestinian man to a hospital in Jerusalem before reopening it for traffic.
Israeli police said in a statement that security guards at the checkpoint saw a man walking through the car lane and when they called on him to stop he kept on walking before shooting him in the leg after suspecting he had a knife. It turned out that the man was deaf and mute and that he was not in possession of a knife, said the police.
🇵🇸#Palestine Israeli occupation forces shod and injured 50 years old Palestinian man at Qalandia military checkpoint in the northern of occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers claimed that they " suspected " that the man is carrying a knife, but he didn't!! pic.twitter.com/bUJyo6aMvQ
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPal) August 17, 2020
Several Palestinians were shot and killed or injured at Israeli checkpoints in Jerusalem and the West Bank before any attempt to verify if they were armed or not. Israelis are allowed to shoot and kill a Palestinian even at the least suspicion of an attack.
“In 2019, Israeli security forces killed 133 Palestinians, including 28 minors. Of the casualties, 104 were killed in the Gaza Strip, 26 in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and three within Israel,” Human Rights group B’tselem reported.
“Most of these deaths were a direct outcome of Israel’s reckless open-fire policy, authorized by the government and military and backed by the legal system,” the group added.
(Palestine Chronicle, WAFA, Social Media)
