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Palestinian tries to attack soldiers, dies after he is shot at, beaten
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian man tried to attack an IDF soldier with a metal table during a riot in the West Bank city of Jericho on Thursday morning, but was shot at and forced to the ground by Israeli troops, who were then filmed striking him repeatedly and apparently fatally wounding him during the arrest, the army said. The army said the assailant also tried to grab a soldier’s gun as he was being detained.Relatives of the man ‐ Yassin al-Saradeeh, 33 ‐ and a Paleostinian NGO claimed he died from being beaten by the troops. The army said it was investigating what happened and collected testimony from the soldiers involved. An autopsy was also performed, though the results were not immediately available. A military spokesperson acknowledged the video and said the soldiers were in the city for "routine activities" when the festivities broke out. Security camera footage from the scene showed a Paleostinian man throwing rocks at a soldier, who was taking cover behind a wall. Someone, presumably the same Paleostinian man, can then be seen running toward the soldier with what appears to be a small table. As the suspect ran at him, the soldier stepped out from behind the wall and shot at the man, who fell to the ground, though it was not immediately clear if al-Saradeeh had been hit by the gunfire. In the video, other soldiers could then be seen punching and kicking the man, who struggled with them, before dragging him out of frame. "[The troops] fought with the terrorist at close range and succeeded in stopping him," the army said. An army spokesperson said al-Saradeeh tried to steal a soldier’s gun, pointing to a moment in the footage ‐ around the 28-second mark ‐ in which the Paleostinian man can be seen lunging at one of the soldiers. "That’s also what the soldiers are saying in their debriefing," the spokesperson said. The army said a knife was later found in the Paleostinian man’s possession. His brother also appeared on Paleostinian television and said that al-Saradeeh had been incarcerated by Israel during the Second Intifada for terrorist activities. The Paleostinian Prisoners’ Club NGO also said that al-Saradeeh had inhaled a substantial amount of tear gas during the festivities. His family said the IDF notified them of their son’s death on Thursday morning. Residents of Jericho held a general strike in the city in response to al-Saradeeh’s death.
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! 11 Paleostinian suspects believed to have taken part in violent demonstrations and rock throwing attacks, the army said. In addition, troops found and confiscated an M-16 assault rifle and two locally produced Carlo-style submachine guns in the Paleostinian town of Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley, as part of a joint IDF-Israel Police operation. A pistol that had been hidden in a house in the northern West Bank town of Nur a-Shams, near Tulkarem, was also confiscated, the army said. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-23 |
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