As video of their son played on their big-screen television, moments before it showed an armed child shooting him dead, Muhammad Said Musallam’s mother, Hind, averted her eyes. His father, Said, stared icily at the screen.
Sitting in the wood-paneled family room of their modest apartment in Jerusalem’s primarily Jewish Neveh Ya’acov neighborhood on Wednesday, Said watched as his son, clad in an orange jumpsuit, stated that he was an Israeli spy.
The video, released on Tuesday, shows the 19-year-old kneeling in an empty field, with a man and a boy brandishing a pistol standing behind him. The boy, wearing camouflage fatigues, shoots Muhammad in the head, then fires three more rounds into his lifeless body.
...Despite his son’s decision to join the terrorist organization, Said emphasized that he and his family stood with Israel.
“My loyalty is to Israel, because my family lives in Jewish neighborhoods and no one gives us any trouble or complications,” he said.
“We believe that we are family. We have the same father, Abraham."
This confirms that the family live in Neve Yaakov, as I mentioned earlier this week - so they really are Israeli "settlers."
(h/t Alexi)