Erekat renews call for UN investigation into ‘extrajudicial killings’

PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat renews a call for the UN to open an investigation into Israeli “extrajudicial killings” after the IDF shot dead a Palestinian teenager and injured several others who were initially suspected of being involved in a rock throwing attack early Tuesday, but were later found not to have been involved.

“We condemn in the strongest terms this brutal attack,” Erakat says in a statement.

“This cold blooded assassination reaffirms our calls to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, to initiate an immediate extensive investigation into Israeli extrajudicial killings of Palestinians; particularly children. The international community has the responsibility to stop allowing Israel’s impunity for the crimes it commits against the occupied land and people of Palestine, he says.