An Israeli soldier deliberately shot and killed a Palestinian boy who was scheduled to testify about a March massacre in which Israeli forces ambushed and killed 15 first responders and aid workers in the Gaza Strip, an act considered a war crime by international humanitarian law.
Mohammed Bardawil, 12, was one of four surviving witnesses who watched Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers open fire on 15 paramedics, rescue workers, and UN staff in the city of Rafah on March 23. The young boy and his father, Saeed Bardawil, were abducted by Israeli officer Major Nikolai Ashurov, the commander who ordered the killings, and his unit after they slaughtered the first responders.
