The widow of a police officer who died in an alleged car-ramming attack in the Negev yesterday says her husband was not killed in an unintentional incident, but rather was murdered.
Umm al-Hiran resident and schoolteacher Yacoub Mousa Abu Al-Qia’an plowed his vehicle into a group of cops carrying out a demolition order against homes in the unrecognized Negev village, killing Erez Levi and wounding another officer before he was shot dead.
“My husband was not killed. My husband was murdered in the line of duty,” Clara Levi tells Channel 2.
Clara Levi, the widow of police officer Erez Levi, talks to the media on January 19, 2017, the day after he was killed in a suspected car-ramming attack in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, (screen capture: Channel 2)
“I know who my husband was, he would defend anyone with his body. He was the first to go in, the first to give.”
Police accuse Abu Al-Qia’an of jihadist sympathies, accusing him of “terrorism” and “murder.” Residents and activists opposing the demolition orders reject the accusation, insisting that Abu Al-Qia’an was shot by police before the ramming, and was not in control of the vehicle when it slammed into Levi and other officers.
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