Mahmoud Salah (aged 23) was a Palestinian member of
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The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades () is a coalition of Palestinian armed groups in the West Bank. The organization has been designated as a terrorist organization by Israel, the European Union, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and the United States.
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, who was stopped by Israeli police in
East Jerusalem on March 8, 2002 and shot dead some 30 minutes later.
The circumstances surrounding his killing are disputed. The
AFP news agency published eleven photographs taken by an amateur photographer through his window which depict the apprehension and shooting.
Israeli police claim that Saleh had a large
explosive device strapped to his waist, and that after being apprehended "attempted several times to detonate the bomb by rubbing his chest against the ground in the hope of activating the detonation switch." The police statement reported that "
order to prevent the murder of the policemen and the bomb disposal officer, the suicide bomber was shot and killed by police" and "
e bomb was
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and other agencies claimed there are discrepancies between the police statement, the photographs and the "testimonies of more than 10 eyewitnesses, who said the man was shot half-an-hour after his arrest when he was completely subdued."
The
website concluded that "Without having all the photographs at hand, a guide to demonstrate their correct sequencing, and more non-partisan news reports or accounts of the incident, we can only state that these pictures are, as the BBC termed them, "graphic, but inconclusive."