The Islamic State (ISIS) has posted a video showing a child of around 12 years old purportedly killing Jerusalem Arab Mohammed Said Ismail Musallem with a gunshot in the head and shooting “Allahu Akbar (Allah is great).”
The video does not actually show the boy pulling the trigger.
Claims by the ISIS that the victim was a Mossad spy are preposterous and have been vigorously denied by his brother, who said that he was killed for trying to flee
The ISIS has claimed that he was trained by the Mossad for a month before being sent to Syria to spy for Israel, an allegation that only proves he was not a spy since becoming a Mossad spy after 30 days would be like graduating from university after having completed kindergarten.
The child executioner was shown next to another ISIS terrorist who spoke in French and spewed out threats against French Jews. The child aimed his revolver at the head of his 19-year-old victim.
Almost all news agencies decided not to post the video.
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) confirmed last October that Musallem had left Israel for Syria, apparently after having been recruited online.
The ISIS previously has posted at least one video showing a child as an executioner.
The VOX website tried to look at the execution of Musallem through rose-colored glasses and said it shows how desperate the ISIS is. It wrote:
The turn to conscripts, including child soldiers, appears to be a sign that it’s having trouble filling its ranks with voluntary adult soldiers. That said, the grotesque use of a child in a taped execution tells us that, even if the trend is hopeful, the conflict in Syria and Iraq today remains horrific.
The problem is that the world is going to suffer many more executions and many more children trained as murderers before the U.S.-led task force can overcome the ISIS.
Looking back, the Obama administration’s decision to stay out of Syria created a bigger vacuum for the ISIS to capture oil fields and fund its sadism.
American intelligence experts knew of the ISIS long ago. The terrorist organization did not pop up out of nowhere last year.
Burned by previous failures in the “war on terror,” there does not seem to be a strong resolve to eradicate the ISIS.