Published: 5 June 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Fearing US-like unrest, police minister says fix needed after autistic man slain (Times of Israel)
Public security minister says family of killed East Jerusalem man Iyad Halak ‘deserves a hug’, but urges public not to bring ‘riots and pogroms’ from Floyd protests to Israel
Palestinians draw parallels between disabled man's killing, US police violence against black people (Al-Monitor)
When an Israeli soldier shot to death a disabled unarmed Palestinian, it triggered an angry reaction around the world and especially in the United States, which has been dealing with its own police brutality against unarmed black men.
'Justice for Eyad, Justice for George': Protests flare over killing of unarmed, autistic Palestinian (Middle-East Eye)
Hundreds gather in Tel Aviv, Haifa and occupied East Jerusalem for a third day following fatal police shooting of Eyad al-Halak
Jerusalem chief rabbi pays condolences to family of autistic man slain by cops (Times of Israel)
Public Security minister skips visit to East Jerusalem family after father posts video saying he doesn’t want Israeli government officials to come
READ MORE
Israeli soldiers committed hate crime against Palestinians to avenge friends' death. their commanders covered it up (Haaretz)
Only after a query from Haaretz did the army's top brass learn of the cover-up of vandalism in a refugee camp by vengeful fighters from an elite Golani unit, in February 2018
Photo: Demonstrators gathered in Haifa, Israel on 2 June to protest the killing of Eyad al-Halak (MEE/Mohamad Kadan)
