Israeli police kill suspect in New Year's Day Tel Aviv shooting

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Israeli police kill suspect in New Year's Day Tel Aviv shooting

Israeli-Arab Nashat Melhem shot dead at mosque in home town, bringing week-
long manhunt to an end

Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem
Friday 8 January 2016 15.35 GMT

A week-long manhunt that has gripped Israel since a fatal attack on a Tel Aviv bar has ended after the suspect was shot dead outside a mosque where he was hiding in his home town.

Hundreds of police had been seeking Nashat Melhem, an Israeli-Arab resident of Wadi Ara, in a controversial and high-profile search.

The 29-year-old was wanted for a gun attack on a bar on New Year’s Day that killed Alon Bakal, 26, and Shimon Ruimi, 30, and injured seven. During his escape Melhem allegedly murdered an Arab taxi driver who had stopped to pick him up.

The police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the gunman was found in a building. She said he came out shooting at Israeli forces and “was then shot and killed”.

Photographs showed Melhem’s body, dressed in black tracksuit bottoms and a T-shirt, lying next to a Falcon sub-machine gun, the same weapon allegedly used in the Tel Aviv attack.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/08/israeli-police-kill-suspect-in-new-years-day-tel-aviv-shooting

[leftynyc]

1. Good

One less murderous asshole on the streets.

[King_David]

2. Good

[Mosby]

3. the guardian is a bad source for Israel related content

Why choose them when there is a plethora of Israeli media?

From JTA:

http://www.jewishaz.com/us_worldnews/israel/alleged-tel-aviv-gunman-shot-dead-in-northern-israel/article_f69ac122-b638-11e5-9301-9379cf70a145.html

Note that he was not shot in or next to a mosque, that has already been debunked, but don't expect the guardian to fix their article.

[branford]

4. It wouldn't matter if he was shot IN a mosque.

They attempted to arrest him for good cause, he shot at the officers, he died. No officers or civilians were injured in the operation.

[Little Tich]

5. I would have preferred he was taken alive and forced to stand on trial.

But I do see the difficulty of arresting someone while they're firing on the police.

At least it's over.