ELDERLY MAN SHOT AT HAWARA DIES OF HIS WOUNDS

Hussein Hasan Qawariq, aged 59 or 60, was shot by Israel's occupation forces at the Hawara (also transliterated as Huwwara) checkpoint near the city of Nablus on Palestine's occupied West Bank on Tuesday July 26th.

He died of his wounds on Friday July 29th in an Israeli hospital in Tel Aviv.

According to both his family and the mayor of Hawara Qawariq, from the village of Awarta, was mentally disturbed and according to the mayor spent part of his time collecting empty cans for money and asked for money from local businesses for his sustenance.

Israeli occupation at first made the standard claim that he would have had a knife and that he was shot for not stopping when commanded to do so, but later referenced only the latter claim. He was apparently unarmed.

UPDATE: Qawariq was unarmed and had suffered from mental illness, and received care, since young adulthood, as Haaretz reports:

“He would wander around the village, ask people for cigarettes. He has been in treatment for 40 years already. He didn’t know where he was, didn’t know what a checkpoint was and didn’t really understand anything.”

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