Left-wing Israeli NGO B’Tselem said that Israeli soldiers shot on 4 December a Palestinian young man in Tulkarem Refugee camp to the north of West Bank without justification.
Video footage published by the group showed that Israeli forces fired four or five shots at Muhammad Habali a mentally disabled 22-year-old from Tulkarm Refugee Camp.
The lethal shooting was not preceded by a warning was not justified and constitutes a violation of the law the group said.
Video footage from four security cameras installed on three separate buildings along the street shows that that area was perfectly quiet and that there were no clashes there with soldiers.
Taken together B’Tselem’s investigation and this footage indicate that at 2:25 A.M. an officer and two soldiers advanced towards a-Sabah Restaurant and stopped about 80 meters away.
A few seconds later the soldiers fired four or five shots at the young men standing in front of the restaurant and the young men fled.
Habali who is seen in the footage carrying a long wooden stick – which he had picked up a few minutes before the shooting – was the last to leave. After he took several steps he was shot in the head from behind from a distance of about 80 meters.
