74-year-old Ethiopian Israeli murdered in May deserves justice, protestors say

• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Published date: 05 October 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Destao was run over by an electric bicycle shortly after a ceasefire was reached between Israel and Hamas during Operation Guardian of the Walls, leading investigators to believe that the incident may have been nationalistically motivated.

He died ten days later.

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A number of people were arrested since the incident, but all of them were eventually released.

"We just saw recently how the police knows how to catch the prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison, but when it comes to someone killed in the center of a city, on a road networked with cameras, they cannot," Destao's son-in-law Moshe Shata told Ynet News at the demonstration.

"The murderers were not caught for four months. If the victim was someone else, they they would have known [how] to use their full powers...