The soldier has been suspended from duty while Israeli military police hold a criminal investigation, the army said in a statement. “The IDF expects its soldiers to behave level-headedly and in accordance with the rules of engagement”.
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In the video released by B’Tselem the soldier appears to shoot the Palestinian again in the head without provocation as he lay wounded from a gun shot wound on the ground.
Palestinian health minister Jawad Awwad called it a “war crime”, saying that even prior to the shooting medics on site were not treating the wounded man.
In the footage, one of the alleged attackers lies injured on the ground while the wounded Israeli is helped into an ambulance.
The shooting occurred just minutes after two Palestinian attackers stabbed an IDF soldier at a checkpoint in Hebron. The UNHRC has “turned into an accomplice of the BDS movement and its conduct is both anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic”, Danon said. “A soldier approached one of the youths that was moving while yelling and opened fire at him from zero range”.
The man was one of two accused of stabbing an Israeli soldier.
Lerner said there would be a military police investigation into the soldier who shot Sharif in the head, along with a wider investigation into the other soldiers present and those that gave orders.
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah said the video offered proof that Israeli soldiers “carry out field executions of Palestinians” and called for global protection of Palestinian civilians.
The Middle East Monitor said the resolution comes as a follow up to an earlier fact-finding mission, which investigated “the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem”.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz concluded that the Palestinian assailant “did not pose a threat to security forces”. Israeli soldiers are in Hebron in large numbers to protect several hundred Jewish settlers who live in the center of the city of nearly 200,000 Palestinians.
In the video, the soldier is partially blocked from view by other members of his unit when the shot is fired.
A recent study reveals that Palestinian support for knife attacks against Israel has waned, instead, a majority support a violent intifada.
The assault is the latest in a six-month wave of stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks that has killed 28 Israelis and two Americans.
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Israel considers Jewish holidays as likely times for Palestinian attacks and regularly imposes closures during them.
