Hagai Elad, the head of B'Tselem, sent a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, demanding that the Prime Minister "stop the horrifying series of street executions."
"The government under your authority allows - and even encourages - turning police, and even armed civilians, into judges and executioners," wrote Elad. "It's claimed that there is no change in the rules of engagement and that security forces are using reasonable force that does not exceed what is necessary to stop attackers, yet it seems self-evidence that shooting a wounded person that does not pose a threat is illegal."
As an example, he cited the attack near Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market on Monday. "Two days ago a police officer in Jerusalem shot 16-year-old Nurhan Awad from Kalandiya; she lay on the ground wounded and not moving. Her 14-year-old cousin Hadil was shot in the same instance, also after she was hit by earlier shots and fell, and she was killed."