WATCH: Forensic analysis undermines Israeli police narrative of checkpoint killing
Border Police shot dead Ahmad Erekat after his car crashed into a checkpoint, labeling him a terrorist. A forensic investigation raises questions about the police s story and conduct.
An Israeli Border Police officer gives a thumbs up next to the body of Ahmed Erekat. (Forensic Architecture investigation)
On June 23, 2020, Ahmad Erekat, a 27-year-old Palestinian from Abu Dis in the occupied West Bank, drove to pick up his sister from a bridal salon in Bethlehem, a few hours before her wedding.
At around 3:50 p.m. Erekat drove up to the infamous “Container Checkpoint,” located on the main road that connects the north of the West Bank to the south. Under the Oslo Accords, the area on both sides of the checkpoint is under the full control of the Palestinian Authority, yet the checkpoint itself is manned 24-hours a day by Israeli security forces.