Outrage As Police Shoots And Kills An Autistic Palestinian Man

Palestinians are reeling after Israeli police shot dead an unarmed autistic Palestinian man inside the occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City, where Israeli authorities have a history of using racial profiling and excessive force against Palestinians, specifically young men. 

Eyad al-Halaq, 32, was on his way to the special needs school where he was a student when Israeli police ordered him to stop for a search when they spotted a “suspicious object that looked like a pistol.”