Video: At point-blank range, Palestinian youth shot dead by an Israeli soldier
Nablus (QNN)- An Israeli occupation soldier extrajudicially shot and killed a Palestinian youth at point-blank range with four live bullets in the occupied West Bank town of Huwwara, near Nablus on Friday evening.
Video footage of the incident shared on social media showed the Israeli soldier scuffling with the Palestinian youth before pulling his gun and mercilessly firing four shots, killing him immediately and seizing his body.
Media coverage: "Israeli occupation forces abduct the body of the young Palestinian man who was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier a short while ago in Hawwara town, south of Nablus." pic.twitter.com/V3bp1OoLKb
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 2, 2022
The Palestinian was hit in the upper body and fell to the ground. Two of the shots hit him while he lay on the ground.
The brutal killing left people — some of them tried to break up the scuffle — at the scene shocked.
The Palestinian health ministry confirmed the killing and medical sources identified the slain youth as 22-year-old Ammar Mefleh, a resident of the village of Osrin to the south of Nablus.
Local sources reported that Israeli forces present at the scene prevented residents and ambulances from providing aid to the injured youth.
DO NOT LOOK AWAY FROM THIS VIDEO. EXECUTION FROM POINT BLANK RANGE. THIS IS THE ISRAEL THAT THE WORLD DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE. 🤬 pic.twitter.com/ePELGkU58O
— Mohammed El-Kurd (@m7mdkurd) December 2, 2022
Media coverage: "An Israeli soldier shot and injured a young Palestinian man in Hawwara town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, a few minutes ago." pic.twitter.com/O404XSUHmu
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 2, 2022
Media coverage: "Another footage shows the moment when an Israeli soldier shot and killed a young Palestinian man in Hawwara town, south of Nablus, a short while ago." pic.twitter.com/BanMNZiGS6
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 2, 2022
Eyewitnesses said that after an Israeli settler shot at the Palestinian youth from his car and wounded him, Israeli soldiers attacked the man and let the settler off. The young man then attempted to free himself from the soldier before being shot dead.
Israeli forces claimed that the youth attempted to carry out a stabbing operation with Israel’s police commissioner Kobi Shabtai praising the soldier who killed the Palestinian.
“He acted professionally as expected of any soldier or officer,” he said.
