Al-Eizariya, February 2024: A Teen's Knife Attack on Police and the Viral "Execution" Clip

On the morning of February 5, 2024, Border Police officers stopped a 14-year-old Palestinian for questioning beside a road near al-Eizariya, on the outskirts of East Jerusalem. According to police, he drew a knife and tried to stab them, and officers shot him dead. Police said no officers were hurt (Times of Israel); Haaretz's report refers to a wounded officer (Haaretz). Palestinian sources named him as Wadee' Oweisat, from Jabal al-Mukaber in East Jerusalem (Anadolu).

Within hours, two different videos of the incident were online, and the one that spread furthest left out the attack.

All times February 5, 2024, in UTC (Israel was two hours ahead).

• 10:38 — Times of Israel military correspondent Emanuel Fabian reports the police account: the suspect drew a knife during questioning and was shot (post).
• 12:23 — Police publish 30 seconds of security-camera footage of the attack; Fabian posts it (post, about 39,000 views).
• 12:45 — Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman, about 846,000 followers) posts a 14-second phone clip captioned "FEMALE ISRAELI SOLDIER EXECUTES A WOUNDED PALESTINIAN IN THE WEST BANK" (post, about 429,000 views).
• 20:00 — Ahmed posts again, quoting his clip: "ZIONIST NOTES CLAIM THE BOY TRIED TO STAB THE POLICE. Is there video evidence of this claim? It's basically the Israelis making this claims after assassinating the child." (post, about 3.9 million views). The police footage had been public for more than seven hours.
• February 7 — Check Your Fact rated the viral posts misleading for leaving out the attack (Check Your Fact / Daily Caller).

View counts are as shown by X in November 2026.

What the police footage shows. A distant security camera, with no sound. The teen walks toward the officers with his arms visible and relaxed, and stands with one officer in the road for several seconds, apparently the questioning police described. Then, with his right hand, he reaches into his pocket, pulls something out and jabs at the officer with it repeatedly, mostly underhand. The officer fights him off and other officers run from their vehicle. He runs back across the road with officers chasing him, weapons raised. The footage does not clearly show the shots, or what happened after he fell.

At this distance the object in his hand is too small to make out. Police say it was a knife, and the motions in the footage match that account.

What the viral clip shows. It is not a cut of the police footage. It is a separate phone video, about 14 seconds long, filmed from across a roundabout after the teen was already down. Officers stand near a person lying by the road, and a police vehicle arrives. At about 8 seconds there is one sharp, gunshot-like bang, at the moment an officer standing over him appears to point a weapon downward.

At this distance and resolution, we cannot confirm that a shot was fired at him on the ground, and we found no reporting that examined the question. Nor can the video show whether the officer was a woman, as the caption says.

• The viral clip leaves out the attack. It was captioned as an "execution" of a "wounded Palestinian," with nothing about the knife or the struggle that came first. The follow-up then asked whether there was "video evidence" of the attack, hours after police had published it, and called the shooting an assassination. That post was seen roughly a hundred times more often than Fabian's post of the footage.
• The police footage leaves out the end. It does not clearly show the shooting or what happened once he was down. If an officer fired at him after he fell, as the bang in the phone clip may suggest, that would be a separate and serious question: whether he was still a threat at that moment. We found no investigation or reporting that answered it. The police account does not address it.

Both things can be true: a 14-year-old attacked police officers, and the clip that went viral hid that fact; and the final seconds, as far as we can find, were never examined in public.

In October 2026, the pseudonymous account Mor Edge Insight retold the incident as an example of propaganda (about 64,000 views). Its core point holds: the clip that spread left out the attack. Some details do not hold up:

• "Edited it, cutting out almost the entire incident and leaving just 8 seconds." The most widely shared clip we found is not a cut of the police footage; it is a different video, filmed from another position after the teen was down.
• "A day later the full footage was then released." Police published the footage the same day, about 20 minutes before the viral clip was posted.
• "Viewed tens of millions of times, shared by media, celebrities, and anti Israel politicians." We found about 4.3 million views across the two posts above; we could not verify the larger figure.

Its description of the attack itself, the boy walking up to the police, pulling out a knife and "stabbing one of the officers violently," matches what the footage shows. Whether any blow landed is less clear: police said no officers were hurt, while Haaretz refers to a wounded officer.

The post's closing lines, on Palestinian parents celebrating and what is "soon coming to every country in the West," are generalizations and opinion, not claims about this incident; we do not rate them.

Claim check: "Video shows an Israeli soldier executing a wounded Palestinian — and there's no video of the stabbing attempt" →