Footage released of Palestinian militant reenacting murder of Israeli lawmaker

Footage released on Wednesday depicts a reenactment of the murder of slain minister Rehavam Ze'evi, who was assassinated in 2001 by militants from the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Bassel Asmar, one of Ze'evis assassins, retraced the steps he took before the murder at Jerusalem's Hyatt Hotel, where he and another militant had rented a room the night before.

On the morning of the murder, the two retrieved their weapons from the hotel parking lot, and took the stairs to the eighth floor, where Ze'evi was staying.

Ze'evi, nicknamed Gandhi in Israel, was eating breakfast with wife at the time. After breakfast, he took the elevator alone to the eighth floor, and was shot after exiting the elevator.

Ze'evi, a former army general and leader of a small ultranationalist party, advocated the eviction of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza. The murder, which took place at the height of the second Intifada, is the most high-profile assassination of an Israeli leader by Palestinian militants.