Israeli army kills two unarmed Palestinians who were surrendering

Footage shows two men coming out of a garage with their hands up and shirts pulled up, before kneeling and lying down on the ground under the supervision of Israeli forces, then being shot at close range at the entrance to the building, according to clips broadcast by Arab channels and shared on social media. Palestinian authorities identified the victims as Al-Muntasir Abdullah, 26, and Youssef Asasa, 37, claiming that Israeli forces took their bodies away.

On the Israeli side, a joint statement by the army and police referred to an operation to apprehend "wanted suspects" accused of throwing explosives and firing at soldiers, specifying that a surrender procedure had lasted several hours before shots were fired at the suspects after they left the building. Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir ordered an intensified investigation, while National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir publicly supported the forces involved.

Israeli and Palestinian rights organizations denounced the incident as an extrajudicial execution and a trivialization of violence, calling for prosecutions and effective accountability mechanisms. The incident is part of a large-scale security operation in the northern West Bank, involving curfews, searches, and dozens of arrests, and comes as at least 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since October 2023. The Washington Post

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