Israeli Forces Execute Two Palestinians After They Surrender in Jenin

Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin after footage circulated showing the men leaving a building and appearing to surrender, according to multiple outlets.

“Israeli raids on three West Bank refugee camps — Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams — in late January and early February displaced about 32,000 people and, Palestinian authorities and paramedics say, involved beatings of Palestinians and the camps being sealed off by Israeli forces”

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Al Jazeera said the men were killed by Israeli forces in Jenin and identified them by the Palestinian Health Ministry as Al-Muntasir Billah Abdullah, 26, and Youssef Asasa, 37.

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NBC News reported video showing the men leaving a building with their hands up and lifting their shirts as if to show they were unarmed, then re-entering the structure moments before Israeli forces opened fire.

DW described video showing the men exiting a building, raising their shirts and lying down, then being shot at close range.

A Reuters journalist in the area told This is the Coast he saw the men leave appearing to surrender and later saw Israeli forces near what appeared to be a lifeless body.

Multiple videos and witness accounts shown on Arab and international networks depict men raising their hands, lifting their shirts to indicate they were unarmed, lying down, and then being ordered back inside before gunshots were heard.

Palestinian officials and rights groups described that sequence as an extrajudicial execution.

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NPR reported footage showing the men emerging from a garage with hands raised and lifting their shirts to show they were not carrying explosives, being ordered to the ground (one is kicked), and later being surrounded and shot.

Sky News and The Sun Malaysia also described footage of the men leaving a building with hands raised and then being shot.

Rights groups and the U.N. human rights office called the killings "appalling" and, in some reports, an apparent summary execution.

Israeli security forces and police say the two men were wanted members of a Jenin-based militant network who had thrown explosives and fired at troops.

They maintain that a multi-hour surrender procedure took place before live fire was used and say the episode is under review.

ITVX reported the army said fire was directed toward the suspects after they exited a building and that the incident would be referred to relevant professional bodies.

France 24 and Free Malaysia Today relayed official lines that the suspects were wanted and that commanders are reviewing the case.

Local Israeli media quoted far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir praising the troops with the widely reported statement, 'terrorists must die'.

The Jenin incident occurred within a broader and intensifying Israeli campaign across the West Bank since Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel and the Gaza war.

Multiple sources say this pattern has led to large numbers of Palestinian deaths, detentions and destruction of infrastructure.

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France 24 and several outlets cite AFP/UN figures that more than 1,000 Palestinians and at least 44 Israelis have been killed in related West Bank incidents since then.

Türkiye Today placed the wider toll in Gaza at a far higher number cited by Palestinian officials and noted international legal developments such as an ICJ ruling calling Israel’s occupation illegal.

Many sources — Al Jazeera, The Sydney Morning Herald, DW and others — tie the Jenin raid to an expanded campaign in the northern West Bank and report heightened raids, detentions and allegations of excessive force.

Reactions and questions about accountability were immediate and sharply divided.

“Israeli forces carried out a raid that is part of a months‑long campaign across the northern West Bank — including a separate operation in Tubas — amid a wider surge of violence since the October 2023 Hamas attack”

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Palestinian officials, Hamas and rights groups labelled the killings a 'brutal' or 'cold‑blooded' execution and urged international action.

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Israel’s military and police said the operation targeted 'wanted individuals' and opened an internal review, an approach many sources note historically yields few prosecutions.

France 24, Free Malaysia Today and DW recorded Palestinian officials calling for international intervention and described the killings as war crimes, while ITVX and Al Jazeera documented scepticism from rights groups about the effectiveness of Israeli internal probes.

Hard-line Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir publicly praised the troops, a domestic political reaction reported across outlets that illustrates deep internal political divides over the use of lethal force in the occupied West Bank.