If the fighter was neutralized: "Shoot a bullet in his head? This is Azaria, we don't murder""

July 23, 2017   

A day and a half after the massacre at the Salomon family home in the Neve Tzuf-Chalamish settlement, this morning (Sunday) Rachel Maoz, the mother of the soldier who neutralized the terrorist, gave an interview to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, and recounted the sequence of events in the moments of the difficult attack on Saturday evening. "We sat down to eat and suddenly we heard voices," Maoz said. "We didn't understand what it was. You don't want to believe that there was a terrorist in the neighbor's house. My husband ran to the neighbor's house and saw people lying down and the terrorist and ran back to get the weapon. He also shouted at our son to get a weapon. Unfortunately, for the family, it was too late. It was a matter of seconds. By the time my husband came out, the shouting had already stopped." Maoz said that while her husband and son ran to the Salomon family home, she called the police and then her daughter, who works for the council. "I heard the shot and didn't know what was happening to them," she said. The mother also addressed the allegations against her son for not killing the terrorist. "He shot him outside the house. He acted correctly and neutralized the terrorist. People said to him, "Why didn't you finish him off?" Entering the house and putting a bullet in his head is another case of Elor Azaria. We are not murderers, we are only defenders. My husband also said he couldn't shoot him after he was lying wounded." According to her, "it made him very sad to see our neighbors lying in blood and that he couldn't help them.".