Is the video authentic? (Picture YouTube)

A disturbing video claims to show an Israeli slapping a pork chop into the face of a dying Palestinian man.

The video – which some believe to be fake – allegedly happens moments after the unnamed Palestinian was shot for stabbing an Israeli police officer at Kiryat Arba, near Hebron.

Pork is considered unclean in both the Jewish and Muslim religions – and the act would be seen as a grave insult to a dying man.

Daily clashes have taken place with Israeli paramilitary police over the past two weeks, as a growing wave of violence has swept throughout Israel, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.




The stone-throwing, stabbings and shootings – in which seven Israelis and 27 Palestinians, including nine alleged attackers and eight children, have died – have prompted comparisons with previous Palestinian uprisings in the 1980s and early 2000s.

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The video shows an Israeli slapping a pork chop into the man’s face (Picture YouTube)

But what marks the current wave of turmoil out from earlier eras is the fact that the knifings and attacks on police are mostly being carried out by teenagers, female as well as male, without political ties or apparent coordination from above.