The Israeli military has released, on an Arabic YouTube channel, this surveillance video of the shooting of Mohammed Salayme last Wednesday, Dec. 12, at a checkpoint in Hebron.
The captions on the video describe a “Palestinian male” arriving at the checkpoint– the “border police” — talking to an officer, then attacking that officer. Then the male is “neutralized” by others. Gunfire is clearly visible.
In earlier accounts, the Israelis said that Salayme was carrying a toy gun and threatened the border police before an officer fired six shots at him. Does anyone see a gun in Salayme’s hand? He appears to be swinging a plastic bag.
Also Allison Deger notes that there is a skip in the video at second 24 or so. Was something edited out?
This youth is deaf – he would not be talking with a border guard. This video would
suggest the possibility of some provocation since he passed through this checkpoint many times and was known to the IOF soldiers. Were they laughing
at him as suggested by an All Voices post?
Do we even know the young man in the video is Mohammed Salayme? Also, as far as I can see, there is no timeline on this video. It could be a complete fabrication for all we know. And if the IDF had this video available all along, why the delay in releasing it?
Where is that famous cake?
I see the youth handing over an ID card, than swinging something onto a table (for an inspection), than pointing something at the soldier’s head and than assaulting the soldier.
The video Mondoweiss posted of the youth speaking to his brother on a audio/video connection does not suggest that the youth had a hearing impairment.
First, thank you for the posting. Second, does anyone feels like retracting their statements?