A group of reporters was able to film on Thursday how three Israeli soldiers threw the apparently lifeless bodies of at least three Palestinians killed during a military operation from a rooftop in the West Bank town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin. Among the witnesses was a journalist from the American news agency Associated Press (AP). The images broadcast by this newspaper show a sequence in which the uniformed men carry the bodies – one of them showing the rigidity of rigor mortis – along the roof of a three-story house until they push them into the void. At the place where they fall, full of rubble, a large excavator works together with several soldiers. The Israeli operation resulted in the death of seven people throughout the city, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
“The brutality of the occupation army [en referencia a las fuerzas armadas israelíes] virtually disproves the claims of[l primer ministro de Israel, Benjamín] “Netanyahu on his ethics,” the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a message on social media. In the message on X (formerly Twitter), the ministry posted one of the videos recorded by witnesses from another nearby rooftop.
Palestinian photojournalist Alaa Badarneh, who distributes his work through the EPA and EFE agencies, was also able to capture with his camera the Israeli operation and how the soldiers dragged and threw the bodies from the top of the building. In one of the snapshots released on Thursday, a group of citizens can be seen on an adjacent terrace watching the maneuvers of the uniformed men in broad daylight. Other recordings and photographs released on social networks and without independent verification, show some moments of the exchange of fire from the roof as well as the lifeless bodies of at least two men after being hit by gunfire.
The Israeli army has announced an investigation, the newspaper reported on Friday The Times of Israel. “This is a serious incident that is not in line with the values of the IDF. [Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel] “This is not what is expected of IDF soldiers,” he said. According to him, the operation, which targeted a Palestinian leader, resulted in the deaths of four gunmen in the building. The mistreatment of corpses in the context of a conflict violates international humanitarian law as laid down in the Geneva Convention.
Among those killed in Qabatiya on Thursday was a local leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the splinter armed wing of the main Palestinian Authority party, al-Fatah, who has been identified as Shadi Zakarne, according to a Palestinian publication. The other dead have been identified as Muhammad Khaled Abu al-Rab, Omar Hamza Abu al-Rab, Ahmed Maher Zakarne, Mustafa Faisal Zakarne, Yawdat Hanayshe and Muhammad Omar Kamil.
More than 41,000 Gazans have been killed since 7 October, the start of the current military offensive ordered by Netanyahu in response to the attack by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups that caused the death of around 1,200 people and the kidnapping of another 250 on Israeli soil. In the West Bank, the death toll among the local population due to attacks by settlers or Israeli soldiers stands at more than 700.
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