Overview
- Footage, including images captured by an AFP journalist, shows two men exiting a building with hands raised before gunfire leaves them on the ground.
- The Palestinian Authority identified the dead as Montasser Billah Mahmoud Abdullah, 26, and Youssef Ali Assassa, 37, and accused Israel of a war crime.
- Israel’s army and police said a surrender procedure was initiated for wanted suspects and that the incident is under examination.
- The UN human rights office called for independent, rapid and thorough investigations and questioned the credibility of non‑independent inquiries.
- Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir publicly backed the forces involved, while separate Israeli operations in southern Syria left 13 people dead and six Israeli soldiers wounded.