Footage circulating the internet today shows a Palestinian aiming a dummy gun at Israeli Border Police near Shuafat. The video is being mis-construed in multiple places as a Palestinian opening fire on the Officers.

There's a lot of misinformation cycling around this video right now. In some places this event happened weeks ago and was taken out of context by the Palestinians to make it look like the Israeli Border Police opened fire on an unarmed Palestinian. In other places this footage is being made to look like a Palestinian is opening fire on the Border Police before being killed in a return fire incident.

Here's the reality of the situation.

Earlier today on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, members of the Israeli Border Police shot and killed a masked Palestinian brandishing a dummy firearm and aiming it at them while they conducted an operation to demolish the house of Udai Tamimi. At no point in the video are the Israeli Border Police shown, but they reacted with reasonable force due to the threat assessment in the area, shooting only to neutralize what appeared to be a legitimate threat to the unit conducting the operation.

The IDF declined to comment on the situation as the incident occurred specifically in an area controlled by the Border Police. The situation is still currently being investigated, as it's unclear if the officers were aware of the fact that the dummy firearm had been ditched by the retreating individual prior to the Border Police returning fire with lethal force.