Itaf Anabtawi says that she called the police to take her son Munir, 33, to the psychiatric hospital, where he was a patient, for urgent treatment. Police say Munir attacked them, and they killed him in self defense. “They didn’t have to shoot him the way they did,” Munir’s aunt, Siham, tells Mondoweiss. “It was an execution. They executed him.”

A bipartisan group of Senators introduced a bill last week to advance the normalization of ties between Israel and Arab governments. The bill builds on the Trump administration’s cynical business deals with Arab governments to further their interests at the expense of the Palestinian people. It is highly doubtful the Biden administration will oppose it.