Last week a video of illegal Israeli settlers shooting a Palestinian teen in the West Bank went viral. The video showed the illegal settlers yelling to the teen "die you son of a whore!" over and over.

The boy in the video was writhing in pain, dying surrounded by settlers, and apparently a police officer or soldier who seemed to show no concern for any weapon being nearby. Indeed, in the video there is no sign of a knife that settlers and the IDF would later claim the boy had.


But now, a new video published on Facebook by Youth Against Settlements shows the moments after another illegal Israeli settler shot yet another Palestinian teenager dead in Hebron, Saturday.

Watch the video below...


Shortly into the video, after about 12 seconds we can see a soldier pass an object that seems to be a knife to another soldier. The soldier then appears to drop the knife by the body.

This has raised questions as to whether earlier videos of settlers shooting Palestinian teens - where no knife seems to be in the frame - are also instances of such knife-planting by police, IDF soldiers and settlers.

The Ma'an News Agency identified the teen as 18-year-old Fadil Qawasmi.

"Palestinians may only access the street by passing through an Israeli military checkpoint with a metal detector," Ma'an stated, "raising suspicions among locals as to whether Qawasmi could have been carrying a knife at the time of the alleged attack."

Electronic Intifada noted that "paramedics of the Palestinian Red Crescent arrived but Israeli soldiers didn't allow them to access the young man. The soldiers then covered the young man's face then took him in an ambulance to unknown destination."