Eritrean man shot, beaten to death in Israel
An Eritrean man has died after being shot by a security guard and beaten by an angry mob in southern Israel, media reports say.
The media reports said on Monday that a security guard at a bus station shot the 29-year-old Eritrean, allegedly thinking he was a potential attacker.
The Eritrean man also received blows to the head and body from angry Israeli bystanders.
Israeli police later identified him as Habtom Zarhum, with Israeli media describing him as an asylum seeker.
A video has emerged showing Israelis beating up Zarhum and leaving him to die.
The brutal incident comes as Israeli troops and armed settlers killed some 45 Palestinians since the current violence erupted on October 1.
The tensions were triggered by Tel Aviv’s imposition on August 26 of sweeping restrictions on entries into the compound of the al-Aqsa Mosque in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) and Israeli settlers’ repeated stormings of the mosque.
Israel imposes new restrictions on Palestinians
The municipalities in Tel Aviv and some other cities in the occupied territories have recently decided to bar cleaning and maintenance workers – including Jews and Arabs – from schools when students are present.
On Sunday, Knesset member Issawi Freij denounced the move as “a source of racism and discrimination.”
Another Knesset member, Dov Khenin, described the restrictions as “dangerous measures of racist exclusion.”
The new restrictions come amid simmering tensions between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters.
Israeli regime has rejected a proposal for international observers to be deployed at the al-Aqsa compound.
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