Israel Executes Two Unarmed Palestinians Who Appeared To Surrender During Raid In Occupied Jenin

Video circulated by Arab broadcasters and on social media shows two Palestinian men being shot dead during an Israeli raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender.

“Killing of two unarmed men highlights Israeli attitudes towards similar incidents, and lack of domestic attention”

Al Jazeera

Multiple outlets describe the same footage, showing men exiting a building with hands raised and lifting their shirts to show they were unarmed.

Al Jazeera

The men are then seen kneeling or lying on the ground and being shot.

Palestinian officials and relatives named the dead as Al-Muntasir (Montasir) Abdullah, 26, and Yousef/Yusuf Asasa, 37, and said Israeli forces took their bodies.

The images have provoked immediate outrage and calls for accountability from Palestinian authorities, U.N. officials, and rights groups.

Multiple clips and witness descriptions provide graphic detail.

Soldiers used engineering equipment to breach the structure.

AP News

Armoured vehicles surrounded the site.

The men emerged with hands up.

Some were forced back inside or ordered to the ground.

Gunfire is heard.

Footage later shows a roller door lowered over the bodies and blankets covering the scene.

The Palestinian Health Ministry and local officials said the bodies were being withheld.

Video and witness accounts also describe kicks and continued firing into a garage area.

Israeli authorities have acknowledged the incident and said the two were wanted militants accused of throwing explosives and firing at troops; the army and police said fire was directed at the suspects and that the case is under review and will be referred to professional investigative bodies.

“Video shows Israeli officers shooting two Palestinians who appeared to surrender during a Jenin raid, prompting war-crime accusations”

Arise News

Some outlets report the three officers seen in footage were briefly detained and then released.

Israel's national security minister publicly praised the troops.

Nonetheless rights groups and the U.N. have questioned whether internal probes amount to meaningful accountability.

Observers place the killings within a broader surge of Israeli operations across the northern West Bank.

Rights groups and U.N. officials say these operations have caused widespread harm.

CBS News

Reports cite hundreds of demolitions and large numbers of evictions and displacements in Jenin and other camps.

Rights organisations have used terms such as "war crimes" and "apartheid" to describe parts of the campaign.

U.N. bodies and humanitarian agencies have documented rising fatalities and settler violence during the same period.

The episode has drawn comparisons to past cases and intensified debate over accountability.

“Israeli soldiers on Thursday appeared to kill two Palestinian men in the West Bank after they surrendered to authorities, sparking controversy that they were murdered in "cold blood”

Daily Express US

Observers and some media noted parallels with the 2017 Elor Azaria shooting.

Daily Express US

U.N. rights officials, Palestinian leaders and rights groups called the Jenin killings an apparent summary or extrajudicial execution and demanded investigations.

Israeli officials stress the suspects were armed and wanted and point to internal reviews.

Independent accountability advocates note that such probes seldom result in prosecutions, leaving the events contested and the facts of what precisely happened under dispute.