The Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced the support from the Tel Aviv authorities to the agents, after considering that nation as a State that promotes apartheid.

It also criticized the international community’s silence in the face of the crimes committed by Israel.

According to Israeli authorities, Salima stabbed a Jew near the Damascus Gate, in the Old City of Jerusalem, before being shot.

A video that became viral on social media showed two Israeli uniformed officers as they fired at point-blank on Saturday night at the young man, who lay wounded on the ground after being shot.

Other footage shows police officers preventing medics from reaching the scene of the incident to provide first aid.

The United Nations Human Rights Office in Palestine on Sunday described the assassination as an extrajudicial execution.

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