Eighteen Israeli Arabs have been killed since the October 2000 riots by the security forces under circumstances unrelated to national security. Eleven of these were shot to death by cops and Border Police troops. During this period there was only one comparable case in which a cop shot to death a Jew, while trying to prevent the man from stabbing his parents.
Yesterday's casualty is not included in the grim statistics, because he was a Palestinian without an Israeli identification card.
Yet despite such dramatic data, police refuse to check whether cops have a "lighter trigger finger" when dealing with Arab suspects. For example, Nadim Milham who was killed outside his house in January 2006, was shot to death by a cop for carrying an illegal firearm. Last July, Mahmoud Ghanim of Baka al-Garbiyeh was killed after a cop suspected him of breaking into a car in Pardes Hannah. Jewish suspects in comparable circumstances have not been shot to death even though there have been dozens of confrontations during this period with Jews who were illegally armed, or with Jews suspected of breaking into cars.
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