Palestinian media on Sunday accused the Israeli Border Police of committing a "war crime" when its troops in Jerusalem shot and killed a terrorist who stabbed an ultra-Orthodox man.
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Saturday's terrorist attack took place near the flashpoint Damascus Gate in the Old City. While police footage showed the terrorist, later Muhammad Shulkat Salima, stabbing a Haredi man and then trying to stab a police officer before being shot and falling to the ground, it also shows that he was shot a second time while lying on the ground.
Hamas, the terrorist group controlling the Gaza Strip, and Fatah, which makes up the Palestinian Authority, condemned Israel for the "execution," as did several Joint Arab List lawmakers.
Ramallah's official news agency WAFA on Sunday described Salima's elimination as a "war crime," adding that the manner in which "a young Palestinian man" was killed was "further proof to the world of the crimes of the Israeli occupation against our people."
According to Israel National News, the Palestinian news outlet further claimed that the video showed "occupation soldiers firing more than six bullets at Salima's body while he was lying on the ground without posing a danger to anyone."
Ramallah's Justice Minister Mohammed al-Shalaldeh told WAFA that under international law "these crimes against Palestinian civilians fall under the definition of war crimes and crimes against humanity."
He further condemned "this crime of execution in the field without trial and unlawful premeditated murder committed by the Israeli government."
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