A video posted on the Israeli military’s official Hebrew-language Twitter account on Tuesday October 10 appears to show Israeli soldiers shooting dead four Palestinian men after they held up their hands and lay down on the ground in an apparent surrender. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told the FRANCE 24 Observers they had no comment.
The tweet posted on the @idfONLINE account at 8:39 pm Israel time Tuesday said that troops from the 17th Battalion (Bislamah) had exchanged fire earlier that day with “four armed terrorists” and “eliminated” them. The tweet said the incident happened in the area of Zikim Beach, in Israeli territory 2.5 km north of the Gaza Strip. Fighting had been continuing in the area on Tuesday for a fourth day after the devastating attack by Hamas and Islamic Jihad commandos on October 7.
