Israel Police officers opened fire and killed a 26-year Bedouin man who tried to commit a terror attack near Chain Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on Shabbos.
According to the police, Border Police officers detained the man for questioning due to suspicious behavior. During his interrogation, he suddenly attacked one of the police officers, grabbed his gun, and shot two bullets. The officers, who felt their lives were in danger, shot back and neutralized him. Fortunately, no Israeli security forces were wounded in the incident.
Following the incident, a large number of police forces were deployed to the area and the entrances to Har HaBayis were closed. Clashes ensued between Israeli security forces and Arab storekeepers in the Old City.
The terrorist was later identified as Mohammad Al-Saibi, a 26-year-old medical student from the Israeli-Bedouin town of Hura.
The terrorist’s family members claim that he got into an argument with police and they decided to shoot him for no reason, and they are demanding to see security camera footage of the incident.
The police issued a statement saying: “From all the assessments and evidence so far, it appears that this was a shooting attack that included stealing a weapon from a police officer. The terrorist suddenly attacked one of the policemen who asked the suspect to come outside and tried to grab the secured gun that was on the policeman’s body. The terrorist managed to take the gun and fire two bullets with the policeman’s gun, while the policeman was physically fighting with him – in the direction of police officers who were nearby. In a quick response by the police officers who felt their lives were in danger – a shot was fired at the terrorist and he was neutralized on the spot.”
The police added that “all the security cameras were checked in the area and unfortunately the attack itself was not recorded on security cameras or on the body cameras of the police officers who in those seconds were fighting the terrorist and working to neutralize him. Contrary to erroneous reports – not every spot in the Old City or Har HaBayis is outfitted with security cameras. Also, the attack did not occur on the outside of Chain Gate, which is indeed well documented, but rather on the inside.”
2/17 Documentation of the moment of the attack from the closed Chain Gate. The attack was behind the closed gate and was not observed on camera as stated. People hear the shooting and flee the scene pic.twitter.com/Zpp4Zdmzqu
— Israel Police (@israelpolice) April 1, 2023
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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4 Responses
Medical Student with hate. No one should be granted this DR degree and be a terrorist
Other media outlets are saying that the previous chief of police in charge of the area installed cameras there himself. It is also relevant to mention that none of the police officers body came were working during the incident. I’m just glad this happened to the police and not to a regular yid or the police would have thrown him in jail and declared the Arab the victim as they like to do.
Arab neutralized. B”H
Yea, it’s so unfortunate how the cameras and mics aren’t working incidentally everytime someone in custody of the magav IDF (“police”?) ends up getting severely injured and then labelled a terrorist. I once walked down the “wrong” street (tho not illegal?) in the Old City and got assaulted by a magavnik and then reisted the assault and was uncooperated in an enhanced interrogation because I adamantly insisted they contact the US Embassy or Consolate. I could have spent seven years in Hell for “aggravated assault” for just not having been able to produce the exculpatory evidence of them severely injuring me and then lieing about it to blame me for my bruises. I didn’t do anything but to resist brutal aggravated assault and battery against my person that meets a legal definition of torture, breach of the Rome Statute, Fourth Geneva Convention, customary international law of the Hague Convention 1907. What they do to people in the Russian Compound while awaiting a “trial” is torture. They break people the worst of ways. What happened to me to get out of their bogus procedure arguably was far worse and ruined my career prospects and prospects for a bayis neeman baAretz. That’s the regime you support? Good luck to you all if so. Like an ir nidachas, I hope you worshipped your idol Science and vaxed out if that’s the regime you support.