http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/mideast/2015/10/30/israel-to-compensate-eritrean-man-s-family.html
Israel to compensate Eritrean man's family
Published: 10:49 am, Friday, 30 October 2015
Israel will compensate the family of an Eritrean who died after being
shot, then beaten by a mob, after being mistaken for someone who had
killed an Israeli soldier.
Prosecutor Yehuda Weinstein on Thursday said that even though Habtom
Zarhum, 29, was an illegal immigrant, his family was entitled to
compensation because he was 'a victim of terrorist acts'.
Weinstein did not specify how much would be paid.
Zarhum was killed on October 18 at a bus station in the southern city
of Beersheba after being mistaken for an assailant in an attack that
killed the soldier.
Footage of him bleeding as an angry crowd rained blows on him spread
rapidly on social media, prompting soul searching among Israelis over
their response to a wave of attacks as well as their treatment of
African migrants.
Four Israelis were arrested over the attack, and are expected to be
charged soon.
Zarhum's autopsy ruled he died of gunshot wounds, rather than the
vicious beating he received as police officers looked on.
His death came in the middle of a surge of violence that has killed
nine Israelis.
Many attackers and suspected assailants have been shot dead.
A total of 62 Palestinians and one Israeli Arab have been killed in
the violence, among them those who were shot in clashes with security
forces.
AFP
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