US EditionUN Decries Alleged Summary Execution in West Bank
The United Nations described the killings as apparent summary executions amid a spike in West Bank violence; Israel opened an investigation while political leaders backed the forces.
- On Thursday in Jenin, Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinian men who appeared to be surrendering, and the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Police opened an investigation.
- The Israeli military said forces aimed to arrest wanted individuals, initiating a surrender procedure that lasted several hours during a campaign involving over 220 sites in the northern West Bank.
- Al Jazeera's Nour Odeh and others reported the two men emerged with hands raised, lifted shirts to show they were unarmed, then were shot; Palestinian authorities named them Al-Muntasir Mahmoud Qassem Abdullah, 26, and Youssef Ali Youssef Asasa, 37.
- The Palestinian Authority foreign ministry condemned the killings as a 'brutal field execution' and a 'war crime', while Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel's National Security Minister, backed the troops involved.
- The killings come amid a wider surge of West Bank raids and displacements, with more than 1,000 Palestinians killed and about 32,000 residents displaced in the northern West Bank since January.
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Footage has been circulating of two Palestinians surrendering to Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, who are then allegedly executed in cold blood by them. Palestinian authorities claim this is a war crime.
UN says Israeli forces' killing of 2 Palestinians in Jenin looks like 'summary execution'
The United Nations said on Friday the killing of two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank by Israeli security forces as they appeared to be surrendering, unarmed, looked like a "summary execution."
Video Shows Israeli Forces Shooting Two Palestinians After Surrender in Jenin
A video circulating online appears to show Israeli border police shooting two Palestinian men who had raised their hands in surrender during an Israeli military operation in Jenin on Thursday, 27 November. The footage shows the two men walking out of a building with their hands up before kneeling on the ground. One lifts his shirt, seemingly to show he was unarmed. Shortly after, both men move back inside the building, at which point Israeli bor…
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