UNHCR condemns ‘summary executions’ by Israeli soldiers in occupied West Bank

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”. “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.