Palestinian Already Interviewed 6 Times Since Killed By IDF

“I could barely get off the stretcher after the cameras stopped pointing at it.”

Near the Erez Border Crossing, May 23 – A man slain at the hand of an Israeli sniper during disturbances at the fence separating the territory from Israel has appeared multiple times on news networks since the incident last Monday to talk with foreign correspondents about the brutal manner in which he was cut down.

Nasser Ashraf, 22, has granted interviews to six media outlets in the nine days that have elapsed after he participated in a riot some distance from the border fence and was fatally shot, including CNN, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Associated Press, and the New York Times. During each interview the man has offered a vivid depiction of the moments in which he was engaging in unprovocative, nonviolent assembly, then collapsed and had to be removed on a stretcher by others at the protest scene.

“It was barbaric, it was horrible,” he told Declan Walsh of the New York Times. “I was shot in the abdomen like three times and bled to death before anyone could help me. I could barely get off the stretcher after the cameras stopped pointing at it.” Walsh included Ashraf’s story in his coverage of the ongoing disturbances.

Ashraf recalled to an Agence France-Presse reporter that an Israeli sniper had killed him with a single bullet to the head. “The international community needs to step in and prosecute those war criminals,” he insisted. “These atrocities have got to stop, and the monsters committing them must face justice. Who do they think they are, shooting people who have gathered for the express purpose of violating an international border en masse, which is the textbook definition of an invasion? The arrogance kills me. Again, I mean.”

In his reconstruction of the incident with a reporter from CNN, Ashraf denied involvement in terrorist activities. “It’s convenient, isn’t it, that Hamas and Islamic Jihad have already claimed the vast majority of the dead are on its rosters,” he acknowledged. “Well, that’s irrelevant. I’ve been killed four or five times in the last seven weeks, and no one cares. I’ve bled to death, dehydrated as I waited for treatment in the hot sun, and even been decapitated by a falling Israeli drone that got shot down by one of the many unarmed protesters.”

Ashraf revealed he is scheduled for another interview this afternoon with a correspondent from the Guardian, in which he will detail the cruelty he endured when an Israeli tank crushed him to death.

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