Gaza,
The Israeli occupation army has decided to close its probe into the killing of Ibraheem Abu Thurayya, a disabled Gazan demonstrator who was killed in December 2017 in protests near Gaza's eastern border.
According to Haaretz, the Israeli army's criminal investigation division claimed that it had questioned soldiers and examined video footage of the incident, but found no evidence that Abu Thurayya was killed by direct Israeli army fire.
The army said that the investigation found that on the day Abu Thurayya was killed the Israeli forces took "riot dispersal measures" against the Palestinian protesters with live fire being directed at the lower parts of the bodies of the protesters.
On 15 December 2017, Abu Thurayya took part in a protest along Gaza's border with the 1948 occupied territories over the US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that he was killed by gunshots to his upper body, and eyewitnesses reported that he was shot directly in the head during the protests.
After the incident, a video was circulated through social media platforms showing the young man, shortly before he was shot, waving a Palestine flag while sitting on his wheelchair.
Abu Thurayya's legs were amputated in 2008 after he was wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza.
Many local and international human rights organizations have repeatedly criticized the Israeli occupation army's lack of seriousness in investigating incidents of deliberate killing of Palestinians at the hands of Israeli soldiers or settlers.
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