Published: 9 April 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
SAJED MIZHER, who was 17 years and four months old, was a volunteer paramedic. Israeli soldiers killed him on the morning of March 27 as he rushed to provide first aid to someone wounded by gunfire in the Deheisheh refugee camp.
That morning, Mizher had an exam. “Don’t worry,” he told his father, Abdel Hakim, as he left the house. “I’ll return before 8am and get to school on time.”
A video swiftly posted by the army’s Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adraee, claims to show a paramedic removing his medic’s vest and throwing stones. Is the implication that killing a Palestinian medic is justified?
In any case, the aerial footage shows several blurry figures inside the refugee camp, not alongside the main road to Bethlehem, which is where a soldier killed Mizher with a single bullet to the stomach. The video shows people on a rooftop, not on the sidewalk near the plumbing store where Mizher collapsed, wearing his black pants and shirt, and his orange medic’s vest with reflecting stripes so he could be identified in the dark.
FULL STORY How the Israeli army shot dead a Palestinian paramedic in a refugee camp (Haaretz)
Photo: Sajed Mizher (Haaretz)
