A chilling new video released by ISIS shows a young boy executing a man the group claims was working as an Israeli spy.
The disturbing 13-minute clip released Tuesday shows the boy — who appears to be around 12 — and an older fighter, both dressed in camouflage, standing behind a captive on his knees in an orange jumpsuit.
The jihadi makes a brief statement in French accusing the man, identified as Mohamed Said Ismail Musallam, of working for Israeli intelligence before the boy steps forward and shoots him in the head. The child then fires at least two more shots into the body.
The authenticity of the video could not be verified, but it was released by the militant group’s media arm, The Associated Press reported.
Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency announced earlier this year that Musallam, 19, had left the country to join ISIS. The Israeli Foreign Ministry declined to comment after Tuesday’s video was released.
ISIS last month published an interview with Musallam in the militants’ online magazine in which he confessed to being an Israeli spy.
But Musallam’s family, who live in East Jerusalem, denied the man was working for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence group.
The man’s father, Said Musallam, said he left for Syria four months ago without telling his family. He eventually contacted them from Raqqa, in northern Syria, saying he wanted to come home, his father said.