Isis seized Palmyra’s ruins from Syrian Government control in May, prompting fears that the group could destroy the Unesco World Heritage site as an act of propaganda.
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It also comes amid the killings, claimed by the group, that occurred on Friday in which 38 people were killed by a gunman in Tunisia, and 27 people were killed in a bombing in a Shia mosque in Kuwait. They consider passing a link to their users, however, the Google Hangouts footage user says that the ISIS execution video is very graphic.
Syrian rebel forces turned the tables ON ISIS, using theatrics to throw what has become standard procedure for the Islamic State back into their faces, according to the Daily Mail.
ISIL reportedly carried out more than 200 killings, including civilians, in and around Palmyra in the period when it captured the city.
The Britain-based Observatory, which collects information from sources on the ground, said the cameras were also installed to help protect the group’s senior figures in the city, who are concerned about informants passing information to its enemies.
ISIS has been active in recruiting children to its cause, sending them to “Jihad School” at young ages and holding commencement ceremonies in terrorist fashion.
The fearsome symbolism of holding executions at the Roman theater anxious Syria’s antiquities director Mamoun Abdelkarim, who told AFP the murders could mean the beginning of “the group’s barbarism and savagery against the ancient monuments of Palmyra”.
The Daily Mail has certain screenshots of the new ISIS execution video that took place in Palmyra.
She added that “the destruction of funerary busts of Palmyra in a public square, in front of crowds and children asked to witness the looting of their heritage, is especially perverse”.
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The video depicts a scenario of turned tables where the executioners are seen in orange jumpsuits -widely known as the costume worn by the victims executed by ISIS- while the executed are black-clad and chained together by ankle and wrist shackles. “Extremists don’t destroy heritage as a collateral damage, they target it systematically to strike societies at their core”, Irina Bokova said in a speech at the Chatham House think tank in London.
