LONDON: The footage, secretly filmed by an onlooker and released by Reuters with a “graphic content” warning, is shocking.
On Nov. 27, Israeli border police raiding a building in the West Bank camp of Jenin summarily executed two men who had surrendered. The Palestinian health ministry later named the dead men as Montasir Abdullah, 26, and Yusuf Asasa, 37.
Summary executions of Palestinians by Israeli security forces are nothing new, as a spokesman for the UN Human Rights Office pointed out in a statement after the Jenin killings.
“We are appalled by the brazen killing by Israeli border police yesterday of two Palestinian men in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, in yet another apparent summary execution,” he said.
“Killings of Palestinians by Israeli security forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank have been surging without any accountability, even in the rare case when investigations are announced.”
