Relato do B'Tselem (traduzido do inglês)
Espancado gravemente por agentes da Polícia de Fronteira. Segundo a polícia, ele tinha entrado na delegacia de Oz, em Jabal al-Mukabber, em Jerusalém Oriental, e esfaqueado um agente da Polícia de Fronteira, que teria ficado levemente ferido. Segundo a imprensa, quando Abu Jamal foi dominado, outros dois agentes ficaram levemente feridos. Morreu dos ferimentos no hospital.
Texto original
Severely beaten by Border Police officers. According to the police, he had entered the Oz police station in Jabal al-Mukabber in East Jerusalem and stabbed a Border Police officer who was reportedly lightly injured. According to the media, as Abu Jamal was subdued, two other officers were lightly injured. Died of his wounds at hospital.