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The United Nations (UN) said on Friday that the killing of two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank by Israeli security forces a day earlier appeared to be an "extrajudicial execution."
In footage captured by Palestine TV, Israeli forces are seen opening fire on two men in the city of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, despite them having surrendered.
They were seen exiting the building and raising their shirts and hands in the air before lying on the ground to surrender. Israeli forces then apparently ordered them back inside the building before shooting them.
"We are appalled by the open and brazen killing yesterday by Israeli border police of two Palestinian men in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, in another apparent extrajudicial execution," said UN human rights spokesman Jeremy Laurence in Geneva.
The Israeli army and police said on Thursday they had launched an investigation into the shooting, stating that forces had opened fire on suspects who had emerged from a building.
The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad on Friday said one of the men was their commander and the other a fighter.
The shooting occurred as Israeli forces were conducting an operation in Jenin, a day after launching a military operation in the nearby town of Tubas.
"Everyone saw that they posed no threat to Israeli forces, yet the soldiers decided to shoot and kill them on the spot. It was an execution in front of the cameras," said Shai Parnes of the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem.
The Israeli army and police said in their joint statement that the two men were wanted persons and linked to a "terrorist network."
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has publicly supported the military and police unit involved in the shooting.
“The [Israeli] fighters acted exactly as expected of them, the terrorists must die!” Ben-Gvir wrote on X after the incident.
Laurence said Ben-Gvir's comments are "utterly disgusting."
He said 21 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in November alone, nine of them children.
The Palestinian Authority's Foreign Ministry, which exercises limited civilian administration in the West Bank, condemned the killing as a "heinous extrajudicial killing" and a war crime./ REL
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