A military investigation has reportedly determined that a wheelchair-bound Palestinian protester was not killed by Israel Defense Forces troops attempting to quell a riot near the Gaza border fence in December.
The death of Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh sparked angry denunciations by Palestinians and others, who said he could not have presented a serious threat during the protest. His image emerged as an international symbol of resistance to Trump’s December 6 Jerusalem declaration, which the Palestinians see as siding with Israel. Thurayeh had said he lost his legs in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza in 2008.
The investigation revealed that Israeli snipers stopped firing at the riot at least an hour before Palestinians say Abu Thurayeh double amputee, who used a wheelchair, was killed, the Ynet news site reported.
About 1,000 Palestinians participated in the violent riot near the fence on December 15, 2017. Some threw stones at the fence and hurled Molotov cocktails as well as a pipe bomb.
According to the report, Abu Thurayeh, a regular at such protests, visited his family the night before he was killed and apologized that he would be becoming a martyr.
— with JTA
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