NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Israel's prosecutor general Mini Mazuz aroused the ire of the 1948 Palestinians after he exonerated Israeli police officers charged with killing 13 Palestinian young men during the October uprising which broke out in 2000.
Mazuz decided to close the judicial files containing complaints from the families of the victims against a number of police officers implicated in the murder of their children at the pretext of lack of sufficient evidence to convict them.
"After having examined the details of the actions and evidence pertaining to investigations conducted by the investigation unit with the policemen, we did not have fundamental and definitive evidence to criminalize or hold anybody liable; thus, it is imperative to close the investigation file of these incidents", Israel's prosecutor general said in his draft resolution.
After the news spread, hundreds of 1948 Palestinians expressed their extreme anger and threatened to resort to international judicial bodies to help bring the truth to light.
For its part, the largely Arab democratic front for peace and equality parliamentary bloc deplored the acquittal, describing it as a racist of the first degree and is consistent with the racist mindset which has been dominating the Israeli establishment for 60 years.
Arab MP Mohamed Barakah, the head of this parliamentary bloc, opined that this decision was consistent with the past and present of a person such as Mazuz, because he always legalized the poisons of the IOA as well as he wrote off the remainder of the evidence to convict the killers taking advantage of the time wasted for the issuance of his resolution.
Shawki Khatib, the head of the higher follow up committee in the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948, underlined that the efforts will continue "until all the murderers are sent to prison".
Arab MP Ibrahim Sarsour, a member of the united Arab list, announced that the higher follow up committee will hold an emergency meeting to condemn the resolution and take firm action to curb the Israeli government from disdaining Arab blood, calling for organizing marches in the Arab villages and towns to condemn the decision.
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