This shocking and harrowing video shows international and Palestinian volunteers accompanying civil defense and other rescue crews, as well as family members, into the Shujaiya area in Gaza, in an attempt to locate survivors of overnight and ongoing shelling by the Israeli army.
A young Palestinian man, in a green T-shirt, who hoped to reach his family’s home, is shot by an Israeli soldier while crossing an alley between buildings. Two additional rounds strike him as he lay injured on the ground.
The video, documenting a war crime, was uploaded to YouTube by the International Solidarity Movement, which described the incident in a 20 July press release:
“The Israeli military just shot a Gazan man trying to reach his family, during an announced ceasefire. He was with a group of municipality workers and international human rights defenders who were attempting to retrieve injured people in the Shujaiya neighborhood.
“We all just watched a man murdered in front of us. He was trying to reach his family in Shujaiya, he had not heard from them and was worried about them. They shot him, and then continued to fire as he was on the ground. We had no choice but to retreat. We couldn’t reach him due to the artillery fire and then he stopped moving,” stated Joe Catron, US International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist in Gaza.
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