Arab-Israelis continue to be targeted by police

Some 54 Arab-Israelis have been killed by the Israeli forces since the second Palestinian uprising “Intifada” in September 2000 to date, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah) announced.

“Since the beginning of the Jerusalem Intifada in October 2015, the number of Arabs in Israel who were shot dead by Israeli forces has increased,” Adalah Attorney, Mohammad Bassam, stressed in an interview with Quds Press.

Bassam added that most of the complaints that were filed to the Israeli police’s Investigation Unit on several shooting cases against Arabs in Israel have not been seriously investigated.

According to official data released by Adalah, 93 per cent of the complaints filed were closed without investigation. While 21 per cent of the remaining complaints were closed after investigation, 50 per cent of which were closed due to lack of concrete evidence.

Adalah said that eight of those killed were shot since the start of the Jerusalem Intifada in October 2015.

It noted that the data on death cases indicates that there are two types of instructions regarding shooting civilians, one for Arabs and another for the Jews, stressing that the police had announced that new instructions had been issued but had not revealed what they were. Adalah has tried to obtain these instructions, but Israel Police refused to provide them, the group said.