Four people, including a soldier and an officer in Israel’s prison service, have been charged in the beating death of an Eritrean national mistaken for a terrorist during an attack in Be’ersheba last year, Channel 2 reports.
Haftom Zarhum, 29, died of his wounds on October 19, 2015, a day after he was shot and beaten by a mob that mistook him for an assailant in the terror attack in Beersheba on October 18 in which IDF soldier Omri Levy, 19, was killed. (Courtesy)
Despite the fact that Haftom Zarhum died after being shot and beaten, the four were charged with aggravated assault and not manslaughter or murder.
Zarhum was shot by responding forces during a deadly October 18 shooting attack at the Be’ersheba bus station, after being mistaken for the attacker. As he lay bleeding on the ground, a crowd of people kicked him, threw metal benches on him and kept an ambulance from reaching him.
A doctor later said the beating likely contributed to his death.
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