Ramzi Abu Sahloul, a 51-year-old merchant of children’s clothes, with his hands raised in the air, was shot dead minutes after speaking to a British journalist on Tuesday.
“doing their utmost to appear non-threatening” to combatants engaged in a skirmish nearby, according to John Irvine, a foreign correspondent for the network.
Irvine explained in his broadcast that the group, who were waving a large white flag, were trying to reach Abu Sahloul’s mother and brother, who were in a house near the combat zone.
