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UN ‘appalled’ by Israeli ‘summary executions’ in occupied West Bank’s Jenin
The United Nations Human Rights Office has condemned the extrajudicial killings of two Palestinian men during a raid in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin city, saying the Israeli soldiers’ actions amount to “summary executions”.
As we’ve been reporting, footage has circulated over the past day of Israeli soldiers shooting the two men to death as they attempted to surrender.
“We’re appalled by the brazen killing by Israeli border police yesterday of two Palestinian men in Jenin in the occupied West Bank in yet another apparent summary execution,” spokesperson Jeremy Laurence told a UN briefing in Geneva.
The office has previously said that Israel’s extrajudicial killings of Palestinians showed “a chilling pattern of violations of the basic principles” of international law.
"Thoughts and Prayers", no action. The UN should be appalled at itself.
Israel’s attack on Syria’s Beit Jinn ‘grave and unacceptable’: UN
Najat Rochdi, the United Nations deputy special envoy for Syria, has condemned Israel’s attack on the southern town of Beit Jinn.
In a statement, Rochdi pointed to the deaths of civilians and displacement of Syrian families from Beit Jinn as a “grave and unacceptable violation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”.
Israel’s actions are “further destabilising an already fragile environment”, she added.
Rochdi called for “the immediate cessation” of territorial violations and adherence to the 1974 Disengagement Agreement between Israel and Syria, which Israel has argued is void since the removal of former President Bashar al-Assad last year.
