A 14-year-old boy shot dead while he was getting a pizza is believed to have been killed by an assassin in a bungled revenge killing.
Tragic Walid Shabab was hit by a single round in Jisr az-Zarqa in northern Israel on 14th October.
His horrified mother Samira Shabab was nearby waiting for him in the family car.
Shocking CCTV footage of the shooting shows Walid emerging from the pizza restaurant with his nine-year-old sister behind him.
A man in a hoodie starts chasing him as soon as he steps into the street with Walid and his sister fleeing in terror.
The gunman aims and fires at Walid who seems to stagger before the video footage runs out.
Police believe the killer may have been trying to avenge the death of another teen – 17-year-old Jalal Amash – who was gunned down in a nearby grocery store last month.
Investigators believe that the man who shot Amash had been hiding in a building close to where Walid was shot, reported local media.
No suspects have been arrested for the killing, according to local media.
Walid died in hospital from gunshot wounds on Tuesday, 18th October.
His mother told local media: “I so wanted him to wake up to hear his voice and hug him.
“I still can’t believe I lost him. He didn’t do anything.”
The tragic news comes after at least 84 Israeli Arabs were killed in the country this year, according to reports.
The town of Jisr az-Zarqa is the only Arab-majority community found on Israel’s Mediterranean Sea coast.
Despite the fact that the quaint coastal town boasts crystalline waters, 80 per cent of local residents were reported to live in poverty in 2016, a shocking statistic when compared to a national average of just 2.70 per cent in the same year.
