PHOTOS: Protests in northern Israel after police kill Arab man | +972 Magazine
Thousands of people demonstrated Saturday afternoon against the deadly police shooting of a young man in the Arab town of Kafr Kanna the night before. Khir Hamdan, 22, had attacked a police van with a knife but was fleeing when an officer shot him.
Arab
youth clash with Israeli riot police in Kafr Kanna, Israel. The
protests come less than a day after an Arab man from the village was
shot and killed by Israeli policemen. Security cameras caught the man
attempting to attack the policemen, as well as the shooting, which took
place after the man had already backed away considerably. (photo: Oren
Ziv/Activestills.org)
