ISIL video claims killing of 'Israeli spy'

A video posted online by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Tuesday purportedly shows a boy killing Muhammad Musallam, a Palestinian citizen of Israel accused by the group of spying for the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.

The video, published by the group's Furqan media outlet, showed Musallam sitting in a room wearing an orange jumpsuit and talking about how he had been recruited and trained by Mossad. He said his father and elder brother had encouraged him.

After that, it showed Musallam being escorted to a field and executed by a boy, described by an older, French-speaking fighter as one of the "cubs of the caliphate."

Israeli security officials said they were aware of the video but could not confirm that it was authentic.

The video, which was about 13 minutes long, showed Musallam on his knees as he listened to the older fighter speaking the verdict in French.

Then what appears to be a boy wearing military uniform and armed with a pistol, stands face to face with Musallam and fires one bullet into his forehead. Musallam crumbles in slow motion, then the child shoots him three more times and chants "Allahu Akbar!" (God is Greatest).

In the video, Musallam repeated what he said last month in an interview published by the group's English language magazine Dabiq, in which he said he had joined ISIL to report to the Israelis on weapons caches, bases and Palestinian recruits. Israel and his family denied that he was an Israeli spy.

"I tell my father and my son: Repent to God. I say to the spies who spy on Islamic State: You will not be successful, they will expose you," Musallam said in the latest video, in Arabic.

His family has said he went missing while on a tourist trip to Turkey, but an Israeli security official has said he went to Syria to fight for ISIL in October of last year.

Reuters