Actually we cannot see that because the video is blurry, Bill. What we can see is a woman with one hand up in the air refusing to do what 6 - 8 Israeli police are shouting at her to do. Drop her weapon. A knife. She was shot and sustained a minor injury and was taken to an Israeli hospital where she will be treated well by Israeli doctors. She'll live. Why say shot in cold blood? She is not dead?
They "say" she had a knife. They always come up with some bullshit excuse.
The IDF has a track history of changing their story after a video comes out regarding an incident they lied about.
They did the same thing to a woman in Hebron.
The Israeli army claimed that she was shot after she tried to stab a soldier, the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz reported. But photos and eyewitnesses contradic this account.
The spokesperson said the woman approached the checkpoint in order to carry out the attack and Israeli forces responded with gunfire.
No weapon
The Hebron-based group Youth Against Settlements published several photos on its Facebook page that it says show the young woman immediately before and after the shooting.
The photos show a person dressed in a long black dress and headcovering, carrying a briefcase. In none of the images is she holding any sort of weapon.
Several Israeli personnel are pointing weapons at her.
Youth Against Settlements suggests the photo sequence shows that Hashlamoun tried to leave the checkpoint before she was shot.
So the IDF said she had a knife, but the video, pictures taken before and after the shooting and testimony of eyewitnesses who were there, prove the IDF lied.
Eyewitnesses
One eyewitness, a European activist, told The New York Times that Hashlamoun had simply opened her purse to allow it to be inspected, at the request of a soldier.
“When she was opening at her bag, he began shouting: ‘Stop! Stop! Stop! Don’t move! Don’t move!’” the activist said. “She was trying to show him what was inside her bag, but the soldier shot her once, and then shot her again.” Several more soldiers raced over and also fired at her.
A second witness, 34-year-old Fawaz Abu Aisheh, told the Times that Hashlamoun appeared “frozen” and in shock. Abu Aisheh said he had opened a gate inside the checkpoint so that Hashlamoun could back away from the soldiers. She tried to do so.
“Even if she had a knife, she would have to leap over a barrier about a meter high to reach a soldier,” Abu Aisheh added. “There were six or seven soldiers with heavy weapons. There was no need for that assassination."
How many times are they going to change their story, before you start thinking maybe you shouldn't be taking everything they say at face value?