The funeral for Muhammad El-Asibi, who was suspected of carrying out a shooting attack that resulted in the death of a female police officer in Jerusalem’s Old City, is currently being held in Hohura. Police Commissioner R.N.A Kobi Shabtai confirmed that the incident was indeed a terrorist attack. El-Asibi allegedly took a gun from a police officer and fired at the officers until he was stopped.
Following the attack, conflicting reports emerged from both the police and El-Asibi’s family. The family claimed that El-Asibi was not a terrorist and was trying to protect a woman from attack. The family demanded access to the security footage, but forensic testing later revealed that El-Asibi’s DNA was found on the weapon. A general strike was called in the Arab sector.
At El-Asibi’s funeral, Knesset member Ahmed Tibi questioned the police’s official version of events and demanded that all cameras and bodycam footage be made public. Tibi also called for an impartial investigation, claiming that the police cannot be trusted to investigate themselves.
The funeral of Muhammad El-Asibi, the suspected terrorist who carried out the shooting that was defined as an attack by Police Commissioner R.N.A Kobi Shabtai, is now taking place in Hohura, on the night between Friday and Saturday in the Old City of Jerusalem. In the incident, Elasibi, 26 years old, grabbed a gun from a police officer at the chain gate and fired at the police officers until he was neutralized.
The shooting in the Old City: the police – it is a terrorist; A general strike was announced in the Arab sector
The Commissioner of Police backs up the officers: “The incident in the Old City – an attack”
After the incident in the Old City, a battle of versions developed between the police and Elasibi’s family. According to the family, he was not a terrorist and tried to protect a woman who was attacked on the spot. The family demanded that the police show the security footage at the scene. At the same time, at the end of an examination by the Institute of Forensic Medicine, it was found that the DNA of the terrorist who carried out the shooting attack at the chain gate was found on the police gun, which the terrorist stole from the police officer and with which he shot at the female police officers. This finding is added to the testimony of the police immediately after the attack, and to other evidence, that it was a kidnapping of a weapon and a shooting attack.
Knesset member Ahmed Tibi spoke at the funeral and said that “Usually in such incidents when the police claim that someone attacked police officers after fifteen minutes there is a video. I know the location of the incident, there are five cameras that look over the place, and every police officer has a body camera. How come no video Released by the camera? We demand that all the videos be released so that we can really learn what happened. This is exactly the same case of Ya’akov Abu Al-Qayan and Iyad Al-Khalek. We suspect that there was coordination of evidence between the police officers. They say exactly the same thing and it is very suspicious. Not only the Arab public Don’t believe the police, the Jewish public doesn’t believe the police either. Yesterday, Yael, the girl who was whipped by the police, said she attacked first, even though it’s clear that it didn’t happen – no one believes them. We demand an independent, neutral investigation, not the police, the police is a cover-up department on police officers. There is no trust in the police.”