Israeli Soldiers Caught on Video Executing Surrendering Palestinians in Jenin

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Video from Jenin in the occupied West Bank shows Israeli border police shooting and killing two Palestinian men who had emerged from a building with their hands raised and appeared to surrender during an ongoing military raid, drawing widespread accusations of a war crime.

The men, identified by Israeli forces as Mahmoud Qassem Abdallah, 26, and Youssef Asasa, 37, are seen surrounded by armed officers, kneeling on the ground and lifting their shirts as if to show they are unarmed before being ordered back toward the building and then gunned down. A video of the incident was also shared by the group Breaking the Silence, which wrote that “two Palestinians were executed in Jenin after surrendering” and described such killings as “business as usual.”​

The Palestinian Authority condemned the shootings as a “deliberate Israeli war crime” and an “outright extrajudicial killing in blatant violation of international humanitarian law,” saying Israeli occupation forces “executed two young Palestinians in Jenin in cold blood, even after they had turned themselves in.”

Israeli officials offered a different account, with a joint Israel Defense Forces and police statement claiming the pair were “wanted individuals who had carried out terror activities, including hurling explosives and firing at security forces,” and that troops had “enclosed the structure” and conducted a “surrender procedure that lasted several hours” before the men exited.​

According to ZeroHedge’s summary of Israeli Army Radio reporting, officers at the scene later insisted they did not know if the men were carrying weapons or explosives and said the two “acted contrary to the instructions they received,” alleging one tried to reenter the building and the other followed, prompting the shooting.

Haaretz correspondent Nir Hasson sharply rejected that justification, saying “there is no universe in which this is not murder,” while another source cited by the outlet claimed one of the men made a “suspicious movement” while on the ground before fighters opened fire.​

Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir publicly backed the shooters, writing that he was “lending full backing to the border police and IDF troops” and declaring that the forces “acted precisely as is expected of them – terrorists have to die.” IDF chief of staff Gen. Eyal Zamir has ordered an internal investigation, and the military says the incident is “under review” and will be “transferred to the relevant professional bodies.”​

The footage has triggered outrage far beyond Palestinian circles. Commenting on the clip, broadcaster Piers Morgan wrote that “this is a war crime, and makes a mockery of those who claim the IDF is ‘the most moral army in the world.’ Moral armies don’t execute people when they surrender like this.”

The Jenin raid comes amid a months-long Israeli campaign across northern West Bank cities that Israel says targets armed groups behind attacks on soldiers and settlers, part of a surge of West Bank violence since Hamas’s October 2023 assault and the subsequent war in Gaza.​

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