PA Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Israeli soldiers carry out "extrajudicial murders... in order to amuse themselves"
Headline: “The [PA] Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls to deal with the Israeli crimes before the national and international courts”
“The [PA] Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the summary executions and bloody chases that the occupation’s soldiers and police officers are committing against Palestinian residents in the streets of occupied Jerusalem, in the alleys, and at the death checkpoints at the entrances to the Palestinian cities, towns, villages, and refugee camps. The latest incident was the execution of young 17-year-old Ahmed Zaher Ghazal (i.e., terrorist, stabbed 3) from Nablus in Jerusalem. The ministry said in a statement yesterday [April 2, 2017]: ‘As is its custom, the government of Israel is hurrying to justify the extrajudicial murders on the pretext that a “stabbing attempt” was carried out (sic., 3 Israelis were stabbed) – which is currently placed under great doubt after many of these claims turned out to be false. This is particularly so in light of the fact that the government of Israel gave the Israeli soldiers the authority to shoot any Arab that they suspect or feel endangers them, even if he does not threaten their lives. As a result of this, every Arab has turned into a shooting target at any given moment and any place, according to the consideration of the occupation’s soldiers who are deployed throughout the Palestinian territories. This has led to a doubling of cases of summary executions, particularly because these soldiers feel that they have official immunity that allows them to shoot any Palestinian… It is as if from their perspective this is just a game from which they lose nothing. Sometimes it turns into a game of a challenge or bet between the occupation’s soldiers themselves in order to amuse themselves and pass the time, or out of an ambition for some sort of promotion.’”
Ahmed Ghazal – a 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist who stabbed two Israeli civilians in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 1, 2017. Ghazal fled the scene, and after being cornered by police he stabbed an officer before being shot and killed.
“The [PA] Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the summary executions and bloody chases that the occupation’s soldiers and police officers are committing against Palestinian residents in the streets of occupied Jerusalem, in the alleys, and at the death checkpoints at the entrances to the Palestinian cities, towns, villages, and refugee camps. The latest incident was the execution of young 17-year-old Ahmed Zaher Ghazal (i.e., terrorist, stabbed 3) from Nablus in Jerusalem. The ministry said in a statement yesterday [April 2, 2017]: ‘As is its custom, the government of Israel is hurrying to justify the extrajudicial murders on the pretext that a “stabbing attempt” was carried out (sic., 3 Israelis were stabbed) – which is currently placed under great doubt after many of these claims turned out to be false. This is particularly so in light of the fact that the government of Israel gave the Israeli soldiers the authority to shoot any Arab that they suspect or feel endangers them, even if he does not threaten their lives. As a result of this, every Arab has turned into a shooting target at any given moment and any place, according to the consideration of the occupation’s soldiers who are deployed throughout the Palestinian territories. This has led to a doubling of cases of summary executions, particularly because these soldiers feel that they have official immunity that allows them to shoot any Palestinian… It is as if from their perspective this is just a game from which they lose nothing. Sometimes it turns into a game of a challenge or bet between the occupation’s soldiers themselves in order to amuse themselves and pass the time, or out of an ambition for some sort of promotion.’”
Ahmed Ghazal – a 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist who stabbed two Israeli civilians in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 1, 2017. Ghazal fled the scene, and after being cornered by police he stabbed an officer before being shot and killed.