In the video: a video supporting the police officer who shot Ayad al-Khallaq with the participation of the fighter, his family members and people with disabilities (photograph and production: "Warrior Not a Criminal" campaign)
An MGB police officer who shot to death a resident of East Jerusalem with special needs, Iyad al-Khalak, about three years ago, took the witness stand today (Tuesday) for the first time in his trial. The police officer claimed at the beginning of his testimony that he and his commander were sure that this was indeed a terrorist. "Two blue police officers voted And they yelled at us 'terrorist,' I was sure there would be a killing spree," he said. "For me, he is now a killer of people and every second a person can die."
Although it is already known that al-Khalaq was not a terrorist, the policeman continued to call him that. "The commander shouted He asked him to stop, the terrorist did not listen to him.
At that point my commander shot and then I heard a woman's screams, I thought he was going to murder her," the policeman said. "The terrorist headed for a garbage room and I went in there, and I shot him.
He fell to the floor and I yelled at him 'don't move', I saw movement and shot again.
Those were a few seconds that felt like an eternity."
The policeman and his partner in the courtroom, today (photo: official website, no)
According to the policeman, he did not know that he was a person with a disability until he came to be questioned at the police station. "I was shocked," he said. Later, the lawyer asked him in the cross-examination if he did not see that Al-Khalak was not holding a weapon. The policeman claimed that "you cannot see running, Shooting at such an event I can't see what exactly he has in his hand, one can guess.
In briefings we are told 'single threats', at shift changes we are told that this is the time for terrorists to 'come and succeed in an attack,' all of this raises my suspicions.
" opinion. "I followed what I was taught to save lives," said the policeman in a video published about two months after the start of his trial, in which he speaks with his face hidden, "They took a fighter with tremendous motivation, who only wanted to prevent an attack and they want to turn him into a criminal, throw him in prison with murderers and criminals ".
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He did not understand the policemen's request to stop, and was shot to death.
Iyad al-Khalak (photo: official website, no)
At the beginning of his trial, the policeman sat in the courtroom behind a curtain, so that members of the Al-Khalak family would not see his face.
Rana, Al-Khalak's mother was furious at the end of the discussion about the curtain in the courtroom: "Every night I pray for Ayad. I turn to the policeman's mother, you will not sleep day or night, you and all of you are criminals. I ask for one request - to see the policeman and know how he is called".
Al-Khalak, 32 years old, was shot on the morning of May 30, 2020 while on his way from his home in Wadi Joz to the institution for people with special needs where he studied in the Old City.
It was the time of the first wave of the corona virus, and Al-Khalak wears a surgical mask on his face and black gloves on his hands.
One of the policemen in the area called for him to stop, but Al-Khalak, who did not understand their request, fled and was shot dead when he reached a dead-end garbage compound.
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