Family of driver in alleged car-ramming demands police probe death

The parents of the driver killed during an alleged car-ramming attack in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran yesterday demand an internal police investigation into his death.

Local schoolteacher Yaqoub Mousa Abu al-Qia’an ran his car into police during protests against demolitions in the village, killing a policeman and wounding another before being shot dead by other officers.

According to Haaretz, the lawyers for the family of Abu al-Qia’an argue in a court petition that both video and deposition of the incident show shots being fired at his car before it turned in the direction of the officers at the scene.

The lawyers also claim that officers violated police regulations and are only allowed to open fire as a last resort and only in cases of immediate danger.