A district court in occupied Jerusalem acquitted the border policeman who killed the autistic Palestinian, Eyad al-Hallaq, in the Old City of Jerusalem in May 2020.  

32-year-old al-Hallaq was on his way to a school for people with disabilities when he was shot dead.

At the time, the Israeli authorities claimed that al-Hallaq was holding a suspicious object in his hand. However, this account was retracted and the officer was later indicted for reckless homicide. 

This is not the only recent case of the acquittal of an Israeli soldier or policeman over the killing of a Palestinian. Last month, Israel also closed the case against the soldier that bound and gagged 80-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad from the village of Jaljalia, north of Ramallah, which resulted in his death last year.n