Arab teen shot by police in north dies of injuries

An Arab Israeli teen who was shot by a Border Police officer in northern Israel earlier has succumbed to his wounds.

The deceased, 18-year-old Ahmad Ashkar, was shot earlier this evening while fleeing law enforcement on his motorcycle in Kabul, a village in the Galilee.

In a statement, police say an officer shot at “a suspicious motorcyclist who did not heed officers’ calls to stop.”

Footage of the incident shows him crashing into a car parked on the road and being flung from his motorcycle, apparently after being shot.

One of the Border Police officers at the scene was then filmed throwing a stun grenade at a crowd that had gathered near the teenager as he bled out on the ground, before an ambulance arrived to collect him. Clashes then reportedly broke out.

After Border Police fatally shoot 18 y/o Arab motorcyclist during chase, an officer tosses a stun grenade at the crowd gathered near victim's body pic.twitter.com/ROCYtV6OZ5

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National Security Itamar Ben Gvir praises the officer who shot Ashkar. “Those who endanger the lives of our police officers must be neutralized,” the far-right politician writes on X. “I bless the fighter who took action; he has full backing from me.”