The Islamic State kills a young Israeli Arab claiming “he was a Mossad spy". He had deserted the jihad
Beirut (AsiaNews)
- The Islamic State (IS) yesterday posted a video showing a boy shooting a young Israeli Arab, accused of being a Mossad
spy. In
the footage, the victim claims to be 19, named Mohammed Said Ismail Musallam
and to have been recruited by Israeli intelligence.
Wearing
the orange jumpsuit of those sentenced to death, the young man is on his knees
in front of a boy believed to be around 12 years of age and a bearded man. The man,
speaking in French, threatens the Jews of France; then
the child goes in front of the young man with a gun and shoots him in the
forehead. The
boy cries "Allah Akbar!" (God
is great) and then fires four shots into the lifeless body of the young man.
Musallam's father,
interviewed several weeks ago by AFP, denied that his son was a spy. "My son is
innocent," he said. "IS
accused him of working for Mossad because he tried to run away".
Said
Musallam, the father, was born in the West Bank, but his four children have an
Israeli passport. The
whole family lives near the Israeli settlement of Neve Yaakov, in the area of
East Jerusalem.
The
father said that the young man had stopped his service as a firefighter to go
to Syria and join the IS. The
young man was not "religious", but was groomed and recruited via
internet.
The
father said he had spoken recently with his son while he was in Raqqa, the
"capital of the Islamic caliphate", in northern Syria. His
son told him he wanted to return home after completing basic training.
It
is not the first time that IS has executed anyone daring to leave the organization. The
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (Osdh), an organization based in London, published
the news that on 7 March nine IS members killed each other in a shoot out to
prevent the escape of a group of militants to Turkey.
The clash took
place near the town of Al-Bab, about 30 km south of the Turkish border. There
were nine European jihadists and one Tunisian among the fugitives who had
managed to escape from a prison, where they were being held following a
previous attempt to flee abroad, leaving the armed struggle.
In
the clash, five fugitives and four fighters were killed; the
other five fugitives were recaptured.
According
Osdh, in the last two months of 2014, the IS executed more than 120 members,
mostly foreigners, who wanted to desert their cause and return to their
countries of origin.
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