Israeli soldiers filmed pushing bodies off rooftop in deadly West Bank raid

Israeli forces killed astatine slightest 7 Palestinians successful a raid connected the occupied West Bank municipality of Qabatiya, with video footage showing soldiers pushing what appeared to beryllium dormant bodies disconnected a rooftop.

The subject stormed Qabatiya connected Thursday, backed by bulldozers, combatant jets and drones successful an hours-long assault, with Palestinian quality bureau Wafa confirming connected Friday that 7 radical had been killed.

Video footage verified by Al Jazeera showed soldiers pushing seemingly lifeless individuals disconnected the rooftop of a gathering that they had earlier surrounded and attacked with antitank firearm grenades, 1 worker intelligibly seen kicking 1 of the bodies until it fell implicit the edge.

In a station connected X, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs described the enactment arsenic a “crime” that exposes the Israeli army’s “brutality”.

Wafa reported connected Friday that the Israeli service had thrown 3 men disconnected the building, having earlier changeable them connected the rooftop, a subject bulldozer aboriginal taking their bodies away.

Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, told Al Jazeera that the footage had shown “absolutely savage and inhuman behaviour”.

Barghouti said helium was not definite if the soldiers had checked if the radical they threw from the extortion “were inactive live oregon not”.

Under planetary law, soldiers are expected to guarantee that bodies, including those of force fighters, are treated decently.

The Israeli military, which claims it killed 4 Palestinian gunmen during the clashes, acknowledged the video grounds of the abuses, saying that the incidental was “under review”.

“This is simply a superior incidental that is not successful enactment with [Israeli army] values ​​and what is expected of [Israeli army] soldiers,” it said successful a statement.

An Israeli worker removes a emblem from the rooftop of a location during a subject raid successful Qabatiya [Zain Jaafar/AFP]

Shawan Jabarin, manager of Palestinian rights radical Al-Haq, said helium was doubtful Israel would decently analyse the incident.

“The astir that volition hap is that soldiers volition beryllium disciplined, but determination volition beryllium nary existent probe and nary existent prosecution,” said Jabarin.

“The footage we’ve seen is horrific and it’s making the rounds present successful Palestine. But ultimately, Palestinians are not surprised. Israel has a way grounds of disrespecting the bodies of the Palestinians they kill,” said Leila Warah, reporting from Ramallah, arsenic raids crossed the territory were ongoing connected Friday.

Schools siege

The decease toll roseate to 7 aft Palestinian Red Crescent teams recovered the assemblage of a Palestinian man, identified arsenic Shadi Sami Zakarneh, from the gathering that had been besieged by Israeli forces.

During the onslaught connected Qabatiya, the Israeli subject besides bombed a conveyance adjacent a commercialized analyzable successful the town, mounting it ablaze successful an onslaught that killed 2 young men, according to Wafa.

Medics successful the municipality confirmed different decease from “wounds sustained during the Israeli offensive”, said the quality agency.

Eleven were injured by unrecorded bullets successful the clashes. At slightest 1,000 children were barricaded successful 2 schools and a kindergarten.

Palestinian students hold wrong a schoolhouse amid an Israeli service raid successful Qabatiya, southbound of Jenin [Zain Jaafar/AFP]

The children were yet evacuated connected buses with the assistance of the Palestinian Red Crescent, but the municipality remained nether siege into the night.

Some 200 employees of the Education Directorate were besides incapable to permission their gathering arsenic Israeli forces surrounded the compound, Wafa reported.

In a little dependable message, a teacher reached by Al Jazeera described “a precise unsafe concern astir us”.

The latest raid came little than a period aft Israel staged the deadliest battle connected cities successful the West Bank since the 2nd Intifada.

On August 28, Israeli forces attacked the cities of Tulkarem, Tubas, and Jenin, located successful the northbound of the occupied territory, successful raids lasting weeks and sidesplitting astatine slightest 39 Palestinians.

More than 600 Palestinians person been killed successful the West Bank since October 7 – the deadliest twelvemonth determination since the United Nations began tracking casualties successful 2005.

“You cannot accidental that this is simply a portion of the warfare due to the fact that determination is nary warfare successful the West Bank,” said Barghouti. “There is warfare from 1 side, subject actions from 1 broadside connected a civilian population.”

(Al Jazeera)

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