Representatives of the Sudanese expatriate community in Israel insist that Kamel Hassan, who police say stabbed a soldier yesterday before being shot and killed as he fled, did not have “nationalistic” motives.
Hassan had been suffering from mental health problems, Mutasim Ali, a Sudanese advocate, tells journalists and members of the Sudanese community in southern Tel Aviv.
Medical personnel rush a suspected stabber into the emergency unit at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon on February 7, 2016. (Edi Israel/Flash90)
Ali and other representatives of the Sudanese community had spoken with friends of Hassan who said that he’d been suffering from emotional problems for a while, but they had recently gotten worse.
“We don’t know exactly what his motivations were or that he for sure was the one who did it,” Ali says. “What we do know is that there wasn’t a nationalist attack.”
Ali and two other Sudanese men say they denounce the attack and wish a speedy recovery to the injured soldier.
“We stand with Israeli society,” Ali says.
— Judah Ari Gross
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