On 1 July 2016 a Border Police officer shot and killed Sarah Hajuj, 27,
from Bani Nai’m, at a checkpoint at the Tomb of the Patriarchs. The
Israel Police said she had tried to stab a policewoman. Footage captured
by a Palestinian passerby and B’Tselem’s inquiry indicate the lethal
shooting was unjustified: Hajuj - whose face had been pepper-sprayed -
was alone in the room and armed policemen were at the door. The shooting
is part of a broadly-backed policy by senior officials, permitting
lethal fire not only as a last resort and granting shooters immunity.