Halaq's sister Diana told reporters that the police officer who shot her brother should be imprisoned but that she believed the officer would be unpunished as her family were Palestinian.[1] The leader of the main Arab party in Parliament, Ayman Odeh, echoed concerns about the lack of punishment for the officers, using Twitter to post concerns about an "expected cover-up" and that justice would only be done when the "Palestinian people know freedom and independence".[2]