Man killed south of Khan Younis was handcuffed, Red Crescent says
Ibrahim Mohammed Kawar'a, 29, was shot on Friday evening at Qizan al-Najjar and his body was taken to the Nasser Medical Complex. No account has been given of when he was detained or why he was shot while in restraints.
Israeli forces shot dead a 29-year-old man on Friday evening at Qizan al-Najjar, an area lying to the south of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip. He was named as Ibrahim Mohammed Kawar'a.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said he had been handcuffed and his legs shackled before he was shot. Medical sources said his body was afterwards brought to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.
The detail about the restraints is what sets this killing apart from a shooting at a distance. A man whose hands and feet are bound is under the control of whoever bound him, and the protections that go with custody attach from that moment, wherever he is held and whatever he is suspected of.
Neither account said when or where Kawar'a was taken into custody, how long he had been held, or what happened in the minutes before he was shot, and no Israeli explanation of the shooting accompanied them.