Israeli Soldiers Murder Unarmed 16 Year Old Palestinian by Shooting Him at Close Range in Unprovoked Attack

From [HERE] A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead at point-blank range by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the latest in a string of lethal shootings that bookend a particularly violent year for the enclave.

Ryan Muhammad Abdul Qader Abu Mualla was killed in the northern town of Qabatiya, during a raid by the Israeli military, Palestinian officials said in several statements on Saturday.

The Israeli military said in a statement on the same day that a “terrorist” had thrown a “block” at several soldiers, and they then shot and “eliminated" the block thrower.

But CCTV video appeared to show Mualla was not throwing a block or holding one.

The video, which Reuters obtained from the owner of a security camera, begins six minutes before the shooting and shows relatively empty streets.

Two Israeli soldiers, one crouching and one standing, can be seen on a lit street corner at dark. A third soldier appears to take position in an adjacent street leading to the same corner.

Three seconds before the shooting, a person appears walking down the street, and as he reaches the corner, the crouching soldier opens fire. The person then falls to the ground.

While the incident is partially obscured because of the angle of the camera and the low light, the video does not appear to show the person who was shot throwing a block or holding one. [MORE]