On Monday, the Israeli police confirmed the death of two people and a dozen others injured after a stabbing attack and shooting that was executed by an Israeli Bedouin Arab in the southern city of Beersheva.
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Israeli police said they arrested four Israelis Wednesday over the “lynching” of an Eritrean immigrant shot and then severely beaten after being mistaken as the perpetrator of an attack.
Israeli soldiers have shot dead a Jewish Israeli man mistaken for a Palestinian attacker less than a week after an Eritrean refugee – also mistaken for a Palestinian attacker – was murdered.
Eli Bin, the head of Israel’s rescue service MDA, told Israeli Channel 2 TV that five people were wounded in the incident.
In the video of Sunday’s incident, a few bystanders can be seen trying to protect Zerhom after he was shot, and Israeli police say they will seek to prosecute those who attacked him. He was shot dead on the scene.
“It should be noted that the police see this in a very severe light and will not allow people to take the law into their hands, and everyone should act with restraint and carefulness and allow the police to do their job”, police spokeswoman Luba Samri was quoted as saying by CNN.
The attack by a Bedouin-Israeli on the Beersheba bus station is captured on a surveillance camera, October 18, 2015.
Ten shooting victims were taken to the hospital, with one of them showing no signs of life – two seriously wounded, two moderately wounded, and two were lightly wounded.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry said in Paris on Sunday that he would meet with Netanyahu in Germany in coming days to discuss the latest violent eruption of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Zarhum, who worked in a kibbutz packing fruit, was in Beersheba to renew the two-month non-residency visa the government gives African asylum seekers, more as means of identifying them to make it easier to arrest them for deportation or harassment than anything else.
About 34,000 Eritrean migrants are in Israel.
Tekeste advised Eritrean citizens in Israel to exercise caution when they move around in the country.
African migrants began pouring into Israel in 2007, with their numbers steadily growing until Israel built a fence along the Egyptian border in 2012. “It’s one more aspect of our security measures”.
“All the people gathering around the man attacked him”. One of his qualifications was that he belongs to a large Palestinian family, with branches scattered across southern Mt. Hebron among small villages and isolated farms around the Al Fawar refugee camp.
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According to the ministry, 30 of those killed are from the West Bank or East Jerusalem, and another 14 were killed in the Gaza Strip. The clashes were fueled by Palestinian allegations that Israel seeks to change the status quo banning Jewish prayer at the site, allegations Israel denies.
