Israeli soldiers, reportedly part of the Border Police, shot two unarmed Palestinian men at point-blank range in Jenin in the West Bank on Nov. 27, after they had surrendered. The entire incident was caught on camera. “The camera did not just ‘document an incident’ in Jenin,” Vanessa Beeley wrote on her Telegram channel, “it recorded a war crime in broad daylight: the cold-blooded execution of two unarmed Palestinian youths. And this is not an isolated case. The same camera has captured dozens of executions in Gaza.” She cites the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor as having reported that the Israeli army has executed at least 7,000 unarmed Palestinians, “including children holding white flags; children literally signalling surrender, yet still shot dead.”
“The Israeli army and police, who were operating jointly in the area, admitted to the shootings, saying an investigation would be launched,” reported Middle East Eye. It added: “However, internal Israeli military investigations into soldiers’ actions almost never result in prosecution.”
Not surprisingly, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir exulted in the killings. He said the officers “acted exactly as expected of them,” adding on X that “terrorists must die!”
