Israel closes probe into fatal shooting

Occupied Jerusalem: A Palestinian civil rights group has slammed Israeli police over closing its investigation into the fatal shooting of a Palestinian living in 1948 areas that sparked violent protests last year.

Adalah said Wednesday that the decision “demonstrates the impunity enjoyed by the Israeli police” and gives the police a “virtual green light” to commit crime.

The police probe cleared officers of any wrongdoing in the shooting of 22-year-old Heir Hamdan last November.

Footage captured the man repeatedly banging on the window of a police vehicle with a knife in his hand. When officers emerged to confront him, he started walking back and was then shot. He later died in a hospital.

Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in the 1948 areas after the incident, burning tires and hurling rocks and firebombs at the police.