Isis posts video of child militant shooting dead 'Israeli spy' Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam

Isis has released a video purporting to show the killing of an Israeli Arab accused of spying for Mossad at the hands of a young boy.

 

In the 13-minute video posted online, a militant and a boy of between 10 and 12 dressed in camouflage stand behind a man in an orange jumpsuit kneeling on the ground.

The fighter makes a brief statement in French accusing the man of working for Mossad before the boy steps forward and shoots the captive, identified as Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam, in the head.

 

The video could not independently be verified, but it was released by the group's Furqan media arm and corresponds to previous Isis videos.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry declined to comment. Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency said that it announced earlier this year that Musallam had left for Turkey to fight with Isis (also known as Islamic State).

 

Isis last month published a purported interview with Musallam in the militants' online magazine. The man in the magazine's photos looks like the man killed in the video.

Musalam's father, Said, said shortly after the video's release that he had not seen it yet. But he said his 19-year-old son left for Syria four months ago without telling his family.

Musallam later told his brother that he was going to fight with Isis. He eventually contacted the family online from the extremists' de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria and said he wanted to return home, his father said.

 

"I saw him with a long beard and long hair and a Kalashnikov," his father said. "He told me, 'Look dad, I am fed up here, it is a country of war, and I want to come back."'

More than a month ago, the family received a call from an unidentified person who said Musallam had fled Isis, was caught at a Turkish checkpoint, and was put in Isis jail.

 

"They did not want to let him leave because if he comes back, he might be caught by the Israelis and tell them what he had seen. So they wanted to get rid of him," the father said. "I know my son. I raised him well. I am sure he's not working for the Mossad."

The Telegraph