Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel s military correspondent.
Israeli rescue forces and police stand on the stairs where a mass of people were crushed to death and injured during the celebrations of the Lag B Omer holiday on Mount Meron, in northern Israel on April 30, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)
MOUNT MERON, Northern Galilee There are three exits from the venue on Mount Meron where tens of thousands of men and boys celebrated the ceremonial lighting of a massive torch for the holiday of Lag B’Omer at midnight on Thursday. And one of them, the southern exit, is a death trap.
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Palestinians protest Israeli policies and settler attacks in the south Hebron Hills as soldiers look on, January 2, 2021. (WAFA)
Palestinian witnesses to a shooting by Israeli troops on Friday that reportedly left a 24-year-old Palestinian man paralyzed disputed the army’s account that a violent, massive demonstration had preceded the shooting.
Haroun Abu Aram, 24, was shot in the neck by an Israeli soldier during a scuffle over a generator allegedly used in illegal construction. Abu Aram, who witnesses said was unarmed, was engaged in a tug-of-war over the electric generator with the troops seeking to confiscate it.
The Palestinian Health Ministry later said that Abu Aram was left paralyzed from the neck down following the shooting. According to witnesses on the scene, a soldier fired at the car which sought to take Abu Aram to a nearby hospital, puncturing one of the tires.