A Palestinian artist memorialized Palestinian autistic man Iyad Hallaq, 32, who was shot dead by Israeli police in Jerusalem on May 30.
A few days ago, Palestinian artist Taqieddin Sabatin painted a mural commemorating African American man George Floyd, who was killed by US police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25.
#Palestine Bleeds: Execution of #Autistic Man is Not an Exception but the Norm https://t.co/uyUaTjt0Zr via @PalestineChron pic.twitter.com/FRBHOFU6UG
— @palestinechron (@PalestineChron) June 15, 2020
Sabatin painted the Floyd and Hallaq murals on the concrete wall built by Israel to separate Bethlehem from Jerusalem in order to commemorate both victims of police brutality.
Mural painted in remembrance of Eyad Hallaq who was killed by Israeli police https://t.co/ggJzPsC5Fc pic.twitter.com/wqQ4LqoGyo
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) June 15, 2020
Hallaq, a 32-year-old man with the mental age of an 8-year-old child, was executed by Israeli forces while crouching behind his teacher near his special needs school in the Old City of Jerusalem.
His murder in cold blood brought to mind the killing in Minneapolis days earlier of George Floyd and made parallels of police brutality in the US against African Americans and in Palestine against Palestinian Arabs.
(Palestine Chronicle, WAFA, Social Media)
