Israel slammed after closing probe into shooting of attacker

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Al-Araby

Israel’s justice ministry said on Thursday it was closing an investigation by one of its units into two police officers who shot dead a Palestinian assailant as he lay on the ground, accepting the officers’ assertion that they acted in self-defence. A Palestinian attacker on Saturday stabbed and wounded an ultra-Orthodox Jew outside occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City. He then tried to stab the officers before being shot and falling to the ground. Video footage showed a paramilitary Border Police officer shooting the attacker when he was already lying on the floor. The shooting prompted calls f…

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