A disturbing video released by a human rights group on Thursday
captured an Israeli soldier shooting a wounded Palestinian man to death
in a West Bank neighborhood.
The Palestinian man had been shot
after stabbing a soldier in Hebron, and was lying on the ground while
the injured soldier was loaded into an ambulance, according to a
statement by B’Tselem, which released the video.
In the footage, the man appears to be moving on the ground when a soldier prepares his weapon and fires on him at close range.
“Although
this occurs in the plain view of other soldiers and officers, they do
not seem to take any notice,” the statement read. “Law enforcement
authorities are by and large turning a blind eye to repeated grave
suspicions of extrajudicial killing by security forces.”
The video
and the soldier’s actions drew condemnation from Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, who released a short statement on Facebook.
A spokesman for the Israeli military told the Los Angeles Times the shooting was considered a “grave incident” and that the soldier had been arrested.
According to B’Tselem, two men had attacked and stabbed a soldier before being shot.
One
of the men died at the scene but, according to the group, the other
man, identified as Ramzi al-Qasrawi, appeared to still be alive before
he was shot by the Israeli soldier.
B’Tselem, which documents
human rights abuses in occupied territories, said “extrajudicial street
killings” were a consequence of inflammatory remarks made by Israeli
ministers.
View the entire video here. (Warning: graphic.)
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