Family claim car ‘attack’ was a road accident , ask why son was killed after he was immobilised
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Jerusalem car crash 'an accident'
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Mahmoud Mughrabi, Kassem's father, said his son did not have a driving licence and apparently lost control of the car. "What happened yesterday was a natural road accident. Israel has more 7,000 road accidents a year, not one or two," he said. "This is a road accident like any other one. The difference here is that they killed my son in cold blood, the car stopped after hitting a wall. It wasn't moving, why kill him?" |
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The family of a 19-year old Palestinian man shot dead after his car ploughed into pedestrians in West Jerusalem have challenged Israeli police allegations that he had carried out a deliberate attack. More than a dozen soldiers and civilians were injured in the incident late on Monday. Micky Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman, described the incident as a "terror attack" and said the driver was shot and killed. However, the family of Kassem Mughrabi said that the incident was an accident. Mahmoud Mughrabi said that he wished the soldiers, two of whom were reported to be in serious condition, a speedy recovery. The injured Israeli soldiers were on a tour of Jerusalem ahead of the Jewish New Year holiday next week and were waiting at the intersection near the occupied Arab section of Jerusalem when they were hit.
He said investigators had found that Mughrabi, who had no prior police record, "wanted to marry his cousin but when she refused he apparently decided to carry out the attack". The incident took place close to where two Palestinians - East Jerusalem residents carrying Israeli identity cards - carried out two separate attacks using bulldozers in July. The men had killed three people and wounded several others before being shot and killed by police and soldiers.
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