חשיפה: שוטר משמר הגבול שרצח את איאד אל-חלאק, פלסטיני אוטיסט, הוא אליאור יעקב
In May 2020, an autistic Palestinian, Eyad al-Hallaq, was murdered in East Jerusalem by an Israeli Border Police officer. Al-Halak was on his way to a community center with his caregiver. When the police accosted them he became frightened and ran away. Two officers gave chase and cornered him in a building. Despite the caregiver shouting at them that the boy was autistic and despite the boy lying on the ground and posing no threat. One of the officers pumped bullets into him and executed him.
After the fact, the killer claimed he believed the boy was an armed terrorist. An autistic person frightened of his own shadow who is accompanied by his caregiver, is a terrorist. And that’s who he’s proudly protecting his country from: a boy proudly holding a plant in his hands.
Miraculously, though East Jerusalem is one of the most intensely surveilled cities in the world, with CCTV cameras on every street corner, somehow the police couldn’t find any video footage. How unfortunate!
The murder was so callous and the circumstances so tragic that the state prosecutor was forced to bring charges. The second police officer who witnessed the killing even testified against his colleague, saying that he too had ordered him not to fire. An order the murderer disregarded.
Last week, a court dismissed the charges against the Border Police cop. Haaretz’s Gideon Levy called it a “whitewash.” The assailant went free. Free to kill again. And you know he will. There is now only one way to hold him accountable for his crime. It isn’t the best way. It won’t send him to prison. But it is something. I’ll do it right here.
There is a gag order prohibiting Israeli media from identifying him (though he did an interview with Israel’s Channel 14). But an Israeli source has identified him and permitted me to do so here. He is Elior Yakov. His Facebook account is what can only be described as hardcore. Filled with brutal hatred. Filled with pride for the violence inflicted on Palestinian victims, which the murderers see as protecting the homeland, rather than the war crime it really is.
השבוע נגמר מסע הייסורים של לוחם מג״ב א׳, שהואשם בהריגה ונעשה לו עוול של 3 שנים.
א׳ כמו רבים מלוחמינו, פעל בלהט האירוע המבצעי בדיוק כפי שחינכו אותו מפקדיו, אך הפרקליטות החליטה להעמידו לדין.
זכיתי ללוות אותו בשנים הללו.
מחר במהדורה נראה תיעוד בלעדי מהיום המרגש של א׳ ומשפחתו. pic.twitter.com/VWvzJJ2hy2— הלל ביטון רוזן | Hallel Bitton Rosen (@BittonRosen) July 8, 2023
Above is the murderer, Elior Yakov celebrating with the “journalist” who interviewed him for Channel 14.
“Get out of here, you’re a terrorist,” said Israeli minister of security Itamar Ben-Gvir, to the mother of the Palestinian autistic Eyyad Al-Halaq, who was shot dead intentionally by Israeli forces. pic.twitter.com/IRXypc6MGl
— Kuffiya (@Kuffiyateam) July 8, 2023
In 2022, Eyad’s mother was accosted by vile screaming Israeli protestors led by current police minister, Itamar Ben Gvir. I call him the Minister of Death. He sought to smack her, shouting: “Get out of here, you terrorist.” A mother grieving for her dead child, coming to seek justice for him. Even she is a terrorist. She’s armed with nothing but that picture of him holding a cactus he planted with his hands, wearing gardening gloves. These are the terrorists.
There is a horrifying irony in the poster published on the killer’s Facebook page (pictured above). The cop who killed an unarmed innocent Palestinian boy has the unmitigated, disgusting gall to quote the Bible: “Do not raise your hand against the child.” Of course, the killer’s supporters are calling Yakov the “child” in the verse. But we who have at least an ounce of decency, know that it speaks about the boy, Eyad, the murder victim.
We know and we see the crimes of killers like Elior Yakov. We cannot look away as most Israelis do. Excusing such vile acts by saying the murderers were only doing what they had to do to protect us. That’s what they say: that cannot be a crime. As for the victim, he might as well have been a terrorist. And who asked him to run away anyway. How was our brave boy, Elior, to know he wasn’t?
2 corrections:
The hug is between the father and the channel 14 reporter(face shown)
And the vile video with ben gcir is not from last week, but from 2022 before he was appointed
Thanks very much
I would have analogized Elior Yakov to Jephtah and Eyyad Al-Halaq to Jephtah’s daughter.
From searching “Israel CCTV Eyad Al Hallaq”, click news, we see how Israel covered up their crime of murder, by committing another crime against the victim, the media, and the world, by saying none of their dozen CCTV cameras in the area were working that day.
Israel lied about the truth of what really happened to Eyad Al Hallaq and did not want the world to see it, just like when they killed Raed Alaa el-Deen Za’eiter at Allenby bridge in 2014, Israel CCTV suddenly stopped working that day as Raed Alaa el-Deen Za’eiter died.
See how Israel Hasbara is working today … search Hasbara … then click on news
Time solves all problems, Israel can’t get away with this forever. It will be Status Quo for a while, and it will probably end in 1 State or 2, or as a Territory of the United States, and maybe, eventually the 51st State of the United States.
Unfortunately Israel covers not only this, but a lot of crimes against Palestinians and especially injustice violent murders that “happen” all around the country.
In last Ramadan a person going to pray at Al Aksa Mosque was shot murdered just because Israel wanted to raid the mosque, unbelievably.
As a Jew and an Israeli, I am appalled, angry and ashamed to the bare of my bones, to see what has become of a people that suffered a holocaust.
We need international help asap to protect Palestinian lives and reach freedom for them and Israel is too god damn ignorant and violent to allow this.
Please help anyone!
The occupation is killing us from within… so much sorrow.
Seems the there is an Instagram that is open with this name. Looks like the above pic. See https://www.instagram.com/p/CnLuHdqN7e6/?img_index=1.
Thanks so much!
Hi Richard, thank you for uncovering this. But it seems like the image you used is of a different person by the same name. I’ve found this Elior’s facebook account and he serves in Kfir unit, not the Border Police.
@Amit: My understanding is that the killer served in the Border Police. though I’m not familiar with operational details for different units, my understanding is that the Border Police patrol East Jerusalem, not Kfir.
So it’s possible one of the pictures is of someone by the same name. But I’m not sure which image is of the murderer. I’ll try to figure this out and make corrections if necessary.
You’re made another extraordinary discovery: that Trump has millions of GOP followers. Shocking! BUt you forget that, first of all, Trump lost the 2016 election by popular vote (3 million). And he lost the 2020 election (by 7 million votes). He’s much more likely to serve prison time than he is to be president for a 2nd term. As for Israel’s fascist leader, looks like despite being corrupt and a dictator, it’s more likely he’ll serve a 6th or 7th term than that he’ll serve prison time.
I’m trying to understand. You’ve got the name of the shutte, but you’re not sure who he is, and still you publish someone’s face? There are a lot of Israelis named elior yaakov
@ Sara vino:
I am sure who he is and I published a picture of him knowing I was identifying him. Not to mention that an Israeli human rights activist identified him for me & I confirmed his ID.
If you reject this it’s your problem, not mine.
As a citizen of the zionist entity I’m not shocked, ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians was always the main agenda.