By Linus Aleke
Embassy of the State of Palestine to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has condemned in strong terms, the acquittal of Israeli executioner.
A statement by the embassy in Abuja, said, after three years of deliberate procrastination and agonizing pain for the victim’s family, the occupation court in Jerusalem one of the occupying had acquitted an Israeli officer who executed Eyad Al-Hallaq, a 35-year-old Palestinian suffering from autism, whose murder in 2020 sparked international outrage.
“The Israeli occupation officer who executed an autistic Palestinian has been acquitted,” the statement disclosed.
According to the embassy: “The so-called judges in the occupation court accepted the officer’s absurd claim of selfdefense, justifying the murder as an honest mistake in believing that Eyad was an armed terrorist despite his special needs. In the ruling, the judges ruled that the officer’s life was in danger and forced him to make a decision at the last moment. It’s very important to note that occupied East Jerusalem, in particular the Old City, is constantly monitored by thousands of security cameras planted throughout the City.
“However the Department of Israeli Police Investigations (Mahash), claimed that there is no video documentation of the crime despite that there are seven cameras on the section of the road in which Eyad was murdered inside a disposal room”.
The statement also noted that the far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and the commander of Israel’s Border Police, Amir Cohen, welcomed the verdict and applauded the sentence.
This, the statement said, highlights how impunity continues to be the root cause of the occupation, entrenching oppression and injustice with total disregard for Palestinian lives.
The Embassy of the State of Palestine to the Federal Republic of Nigeria reiterate the urgent call of the Palestine leadership to the Security Council to overcome it’s paralysis and to act, in line with it’s charter duties and it’s own resolutions.
It is time, the statement added, for the international community to abandon double standards and uphold the law equally, in all circumstances, and put an end to this deplorable situation whereby Israel is treated as a state above the law, shielded from any consequences for the war crimes and crimes against humanity it is committing.
