Video footage shows men in Jenin unarmed and complying before soldiers open fire

Israeli forces executed two unarmed Palestinians at point-blank range after they surrendered in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday.

The killings were captured on video, which showed the two men emerging from a building with their arms raised and their shirts lifted, clearly indicating they were unarmed and posed no threat to the soldiers.

The troops then shoot them dead.

The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the victims as Al-Muntasir Billah Mahmoud Qassem Abdullah, 26, and Yousef Ali Yousef Asa’sa, 37. They were shot in the Abu Dhahir neighborhood of Jenin.

  • Aljernon@lemmy.todayEnglish
    33·
    7 hours ago

    Deuteronomy 7:1 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— 2 and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.[a] Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.

  • Aljernon@lemmy.todayEnglish
    33·
    7 hours ago

    Deuteronomy 20: 16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.

  • spirinolas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    60·
    1 day ago

    For people that haven’t followed this genocide for decades, this is outrageous and a clear violation of human rights. For the ones who have…it’s Tuesday.

    • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
      293·
      1 day ago

      because nearly 100 years ago someone else did it to their people and now they’re saying “it’s our turn.”

      This is purely about extermination and vengeance towards a people that had NOTHING to do with any of Israels previous issues exactly like the Jewish people in German had NOTHING to do with the issues Nazi Germany felt they were experiencing at the time. The Palestinian people are simply there, on land the Israelis perceive as rightfully theirs and they want them gone JUST like Nazi Germany.

      But Zionists won’t admit to the correlation. Oh in their heads they know fully well WHY they’re doing it, they just won’t admit to it. They won’t say “this is payback.”

      • Aljernon@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        For most people the takeaway was “Genocide is bad”, for Israelis the takeaway was “Genocide against God’s Chosen People is bad”

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        301·
        23 hours ago

        because nearly 100 years ago someone else did it to their people and now they’re saying “it’s our turn.”

        Not even close.

        Most Israelis by a large margin are descendants of people who came from Russia, not Western Europe.

        Most Israelis by a large margin are either descendants of people who came from Russia, or already lived in the territory of Palestine when Israel was formed, not descendants of people from Western Europe.

        Only a small fraction of Israelis are descendants of people affected by the Holocaust, much less of Holocaust survivors.

        There is no such thing as a “Jewish Hive Mind” and the only thing these Jews share with the Jews who were victims of the Holocaust is having the same religion, nothing else - not principles, not ethics, not morals, not empathy with victims of extreme racism, not even most of their culture: just because somebody also uses a kippah doesn’t mean the think like you.

        The Holocaust in Israel is nothing more than a tool used by the present day Nazi-like ideology that runs that place to induce collective fear amongst Jews because it’s much more easy to spread extreme racist hate amongst people who live in fear because of their ethnicity.

        This explains why, rather than learning from the Holocaust to empathise with the victims of such things (which would be a natural thing for the descendants of the victims of the Holocaust to learn from the experiences of their parents and grandparents), most people in Israel have instead learned extreme racist hate for those who don’t look like them and who stand in the way of what they are told “is necessary make Jews safe”.

        The way the memory of the Holocaust is used in Israel is a complete total shit show of Racism and Propaganda that has massivelly distorted the real thing to serve the objectives of the Nazi-like ideology which is Zionism.

        • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          64·
          1 day ago

          Most Israelis by a large margin are descendants of people who came from Russia, not Western Europe.

          That’s a factually wrong. The largest group, which is 40% of the Jewish Israeli population is Mizrahi Jews who originally came from Middle Eastern and North African communities.

            • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              7 hours ago

              I addition to the other comment you got, your source is specifically about Jews while mine clearly isn’t. Go tell them yourself.

            • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
              7·
              23 hours ago

              Your source is about immigration (although that website is pretty yank), but the Mizrahi did not immigrate there, they were already there.

              Either way, neither the immigrant groups nor the indigenous have much to do with the Holocaust. Last I read, less than 10% of Israel’s population is descended from Holocaust survivors. But don’t quote me on this, I’d need to find sources.

              • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                21·
                23 hours ago

                Fair enough - I don’t really know what are the numbers of Jewish People who already lived in the territory of Palestine that was became Israel at the time of the formation of that country.

                This info is all I found some time ago because I was curious.

                I knew that a lot of people from Russia had emigrated to Israel but the actual number was very surprising when I found out.

                But yeah, either way we both agree on the core point which is that a large majority of Israelis are not descendants from people affected by the Holocaust.

      • notsure@fedia.io
        11·
        1 day ago

        …could it be that an eye for an eye begets a blind people?.. …fuck, i’m quoting scripture again aren’t i, fuck me…

    • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      504·
      1 day ago

      Because Israel is an illegitimate state, and Zionists are filth who have become the world’s most protected bullies (and by bullies, I mean murderers)

      The US and UK in particular have blood on their hands, but so does every state that isn’t stopping them.

      • zbyte64@awful.systemsEnglish
        3·
        6 hours ago

        The west didn’t want to pay the price for their apology for antisemitism so they had the Palestinians pay in land and blood.

        • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          The West wanted a useful presence in the middle-east

          They wanted a dog

          Their dog slipped its chain though and while still useful, it’s not controllable