( CNN ) -- The Israeli military has suspended a soldier who was filmed by CNN firing a rifle at Palestinian demonstrators during a deadly shooting incident on May 15 that resulted in the deaths of two Palestinian teenagers , an Israeli military source told CNN . The source , who asked not to be identified because of a continuing Israeli investigation , said the soldier that was suspended worked for the military 's communications department and was not supposed to be shooting at all . `` He 's not supposed to shoot things , '' the military source told CNN . `` And that 's ultimately what he was doing , '' the source said . `` That 's why he was suspended until the investigation has been completed . '' The Israeli Defense Force is standing by its assertion that Israeli border police and soldiers only fired tear gas and rubber-coated projectiles during deadly clashes in the West Bank village of Beitunya on May 15 . Security cameras caught the fatal shooting that day of two Palestinian teenagers in Beitunya . According to six hours of raw , unedited video distributed by the children 's rights advocacy organization Defense of Children International and reviewed by CNN in its entirety , the two boys -- ages 17 and 16 -- were shot on the same patch of asphalt on the same day , the second victim 73 minutes after the first . At the exact moment when the first boy , Nadeem Nouwarah , was fatally wounded , CNN producer Kareem Khadder was also filming the clashes . In the CNN video , it is not clear what kind of rounds the Israelis were shooting , or whether their gunfire hit Nouwarah . However , Khadder 's camera shows that less than 15 seconds after one of these gunshots , Palestinians were already racing to put the fatally wounded Nouwarah in the ambulance . CNN filmed two Israeli security officers firing at the time of the incident . The first wore the black uniform and visored-helmet of a border police officer . The second wore the green uniform of the Israeli Defense Force , and appears to be the same man who was filmed earlier taking photographs with a still camera . Seconds after he shoots his weapon , a border policeman takes the rifle from him . CNN was able to match events on the security video with events on CNN 's own video . The IDF soldier is seen at other moments in the video aiming the rifle at the Palestinian protesters , appearing to be coached by a border police officer . IDF spokesmen and military experts tell CNN that both of the weapons fired in the video appear to be outfitted with an attachment used to shoot rubber-coated , metal projectiles . These `` rubber bullets '' are designed to wound , but not penetrate the bodies of the targets . According to a medical report , Nouwarah was pronounced dead in a hospital , having suffered a single bullet wound that entered chest and passed out his back . Doctors pronounced the other teenage victim , Mohammad Odeh Salameh , dead on arrival at the hospital , with a bullet wound that had pierced his back and exited out of his chest . During an interview last week , Nouwarah 's grieving father Siam showed CNN the bloody backpack that his son was filmed wearing at the moment he was shot . There was a small hole in the bag , at roughly the same location where the bullet would have exited from Nouwarah 's body . The elder Nouwarah then pulled a packet of bloodstained papers out of the bag . They were photocopies of a text book that included the writings of Anton Chekhov , accompanied by handwriting , doodles , and class notes . `` We were surprised when we took the school backpack back from the hospital to find this bullet inside , '' said the elder Nouwarah , who then pulled out a small used bullet stored in a plastic bag out of the backpack . The metal slug appeared to be from a 556 NATO round , the standard ammunition used by M-16 rifles carried by Israeli security forces . It was impossible for CNN to confirm the authenticity of the bullet . Siam Nouwarah said he was saving it for a forensic examination . He accuses Israeli soldiers of killing his son . The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem , which investigates allegations of human rights abuses in the West Bank , said the fatal shootings in Beitunya could not have been caused by rubber bullets . `` We still think that these injuries could not have been sustained with any other weapons other than live ammunition , '' said Sarit Michaeli , a B'Tselem spokeswoman . Though rubber bullets are sometimes known to be fatal , Michaeli said `` there 's just no recorded incident ever of a rubber bullet killing two people from a range of about 70 meters , '' referring to an estimate of the distance between the border police and the victims . However , Michaeli added that the CNN footage shows `` border police firing something that looks very much like a rubber bullet . '' The U.S. State Department has joined the United Nations in calling for a swift and impartial investigation into the shootings . Father blames Israeli military in Palestinian teens ' deaths . Initial report : Palestinian teens fatally shot presented no threat .
Source : Palestinian military suspends soldier connected to shooting incident . one Palestinian teens killed as a result of shooting in the West Bank village on last week . CNN says they only used tear gas and rubber bullets .