Israeli border thugs gratuitously shot Ahmad Erekat dead after he had an embarrassing car crash, then lied about the circumstances.

Thugs in various countries have a practice of thinking, "What accusations can we make against the victim that no one can disprove." But in this case they seem to have exceeded that limit.

When my friends die, I miss them. It doesn't matter whether I even see their corpses. But it occurs to me that there may be a sinister reason why Israel holds permanently the corpses of Palestinians that Israelis kill: to prevent autopsies that could provide objective evidence about how they were killed. Making this a blanket policy avoids the need to conjure up an individual excuse.