{"id":188530,"date":"2019-05-19T08:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T08:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188530"},"modified":"2019-05-21T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T07:36:28","slug":"israel-claims-its-troops-didnt-kill-paraplegic-palestinian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188530","title":{"rendered":"Israel claims its troops didn’t kill paraplegic Palestinian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Associated Press \u2013 May 17, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Ibraheem Abu Thuraya lost his legs and a kidney in an Israeli airstrike in 2018. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The Israeli army on Friday closed a criminal investigation into the death of a paraplegic Palestinian man shot while demonstrating along Gaza’s border with Israel in 2017, saying the probe found “no evidence” that its soldiers fired the fatal bullet.<\/span><\/p>\n

The army described the protest in which 29-year-old Ibrahim Abu Thraya was killed as a “violent riot,” and said troops responded by opening fire toward the lower body parts of “main instigators.”<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of its investigation, the military said it tried to obtain the bullet that killed Abu Thraya, but Palestinian authorities denied its request.<\/span><\/p>\n

Witnesses at the time said no gunfire came from the Palestinian side. Palestinians and human rights groups claimed he was shot by an Israeli sniper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Abu Thraya, hailed as a symbol of heroism by Palestinians for persistently raising a Palestinian flag from his wheelchair at demonstrations, died of bleeding in his brain after a bullet struck his head, according to medical records obtained by The Associated Press. He was killed at a rally protesting President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize contested Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.<\/span><\/p>\n

Human rights groups have long criticized Israeli military investigations, saying they rarely result in punishments and alleging they’re designed to whitewash abuses by troops.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The IDF routinely shoot unarmed Palestinians but Abu Thraya was different. Not only was he unarmed, he was in a wheelchair having lost his legs in a 2008 Israeli air strike <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188533,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188530\/revisions\/188533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}