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.
A sense of paranoia has gripped Israel and the occupied territories
in recent weeks amid renewed violence which has seen Israeli forces kill
at least 52 Palestinians including unarmed protesters, bystanders and
suspected attackers. Eight Israelis have died in Palestinian attacks.
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According to Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, the victim of
the latest killing late on Wednesday refused to provide the soldiers
with his identity card, started to punch them and attempted to seize one
of their weapons. He was shot dead on the scene.
Yehuda Meshi Zahav, a member of the ZAKA emergency medical team called to the scene, told the local Jerusalem Post he had also mistaken the man to be a Palestinian.
"I wanted to cover the body in a black bag [reserved for
alleged attackers]," he said. "After I was asked to take care of the
body I saw that he was a Jew, and that it was mistake to speak of a
terrorist. I immediately notified the police and we switched to a white
ZAKA body bag."
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