Islamic State group executes children for not fasting

Beirut: The Islamic State group has reportedly “crucified” two young boys for not fasting during the holy month of Ramzan. The boys, believed to be under the age of 18, were killed in Syria and their bodies displayed with placards hung around their necks announcing their “crime”, reported The Independent.

A report in AFP earlier said that the boys were hung from a beam by their wrists.

Their deaths in the town of Mayadin, Deir Ezzor province, were reported by the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

“Residents of the village of Mayadeen in Deir Ezzor province reported that IS suspended from a crossbar two boys aged under 18 near the HQ of the Hissba,” the jihadist police, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

“Apparently, they were caught eating,” he said, adding that the signs hung around their necks claimed they broke the Ramadan fast “with no religious justification”.

Meanwhile, an IS video released on Tuesday showed the jihadists murdering 16 men by drowning them in a cage, decapitating them with explosives and firing a rocket-propelled grenade into a car.

The video, apparently shot in Iraq’s Nineveh province, was one of the most brutal yet in a series released by the jihadists of killings of opponents in areas under Islamic State control.

Maamoun Abdulkarim said IS jihadists blew up the tombs of Mohammed bin Ali, a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed’s cousin, and Nizar Abu Bahaaeddine, a religious figure from Palmyra, three days ago.

Bin Ali’s burial place is located in a mountainous region four kilometres (almost three miles) north of Palmyra, in central Syria. Photos published by IS depicted two armed men carrying cannisters, apparently filled with explosives, walking up the rocky hill to the site. Abu Bahaaeddine’s tomb, nestled in a leafy oasis about 500 m from Palmyra’s ancient ruins, is said to be more than five centuries old.