JEWISH TALMUD Hilkkoth Akum X1:
“Do not save Goyim in danger of death.”
| Eyad Al-Hallaq’s mother holds his photo. Photo: Shai Kendler / Wikimedia Commons |
| Adalah, together with Meezan, filed a petition on behalf of the parents of Eyad Al-Hallaq to the SCT against the State Attorney’s decision not to appeal the Jerusalem District Court’s ruling to acquit the Israeli Police officer who killed Al-Hallaq. Al-Hallaq was a 32-year-old autistic Palestinian man, who was murdered in Jerusalem’s Old City in 2020, while he was making his way to the special needs school where he worked and studied. The Jerusalem District Court acquitted the Israeli Border Police officer who killed Eyad of reckless manslaughter after the Police Investigation Department decided, in a rare occurrence, in October 2020 to criminally charge him. The court decision essentially permits the use of lethal force by police based on an individual officer’s ‘subjective’ reading of the situation, and has the ability to almost entirely eliminate accountability for police in cases of killing Palestinians. More than two decades after the October 2000 killings, Israel still grants sweeping impunity to its police and military forces when Palestinians are killed or wounded. Between 1-8 October 2000, Palestinian citizens of Israel held mass protests against the killing and wounding of scores of Palestinians by Israeli forces at Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and in the West Bank. During the protests in Israel, later known as the October 2000 killings, Israeli police officers shot dead 13 young unarmed Palestinian men and wounded hundreds. Twenty-three years later, Israel has failed to hold its armed forces accountable for the killings, and police forces continue to violently suppress legitimat |
