“It is clear that the regulations do not refer to just any stone throwers but that they were written specifically regarding Palestinian youths,” said Adalah attorney Mohammad Bassam. (Photo: Reuters)
– Israel’s New Open-Fire Rule Authorizes ‘Extra-Judicial Execution’ of Palestinian Youths:
Israeli police regulations, previously kept classified, permit preemptive and fatal recourse against suspected stone-throwers
Israeli police are officially permitted to use deadly force against stone-throwing Palestinian teenagers, according to updated regulations made public on Tuesday by an Israel-based human rights organization.
The new open-fire regulations, revealed by Adalah, a rights organization and legal center that defends Palestinians living in Israel as well as the occupied territories, state that “an officer is permitted to open fire [with live ammunition] directly on an individual who clearly appears to be throwing or is about to throw a firebomb, or who is shooting or is about to shoot fireworks, in order to prevent endangerment.”
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