26-year-old Mustafa Darwish Younis, epileptic patient with mental health issues, was shot and killed by Israeli security guards at the parking lot of Tel Hashomer hospital near Tel Aviv after an altercation.
Younis had come to the hospital with his mother for a regular psychotherapy session, and had ended up in a heated argument with two people who had
demanded to know why he wasn't wearing a mask.
According to Israeli authorities, he would have then tried to hit one of those persons with a knife, without causing injury. These persons would have then gone to security guards at the hospital.
Younis' mother claims that the argument never went beyond the level of words. After mother and son had gone back to and entered their car, security guards had come to the car demanding that Mustafa Younis exit it. He refused, and was then dragged out according to some sources,
At this point events were captured on video. Younis is standing beside the car when another man grabs him from the ground. This person then struggles with Younis, who ends up stretched on the ground. As that man who grabbed him
According to Israeli authorities, he would have hit a security guard wih a knife befoe being shot. Some reports claim that he had instead a screw-driver.
The next day Israeli police arrested 10 people when it attacked a demonstration organized by residents of the town of Wadi Ara where Younes lived.
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