The Israeli military is being accused of unlawfully killing two unarmed Palestinian youths following the release of video footage showing the attacks. The two victims were killed during annual Palestinian rallies in the occupied West Bank marking the Nakba, or “Catastrophe,” when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced during the period around Israel’s declaration of statehood. On the tapes, the first victim is shot as he walks down a street with his hands by his side. The second victim is shot as he walks away from a protest area with his back turned. Rifat Kassis of the group Defence for Children International called on the Israeli government to launch an investigation.

Rifat Kassis: “Watching the video and through our documentation, the final conclusion for us is that neither of the children posed any threats to be deserved to get killed. This is one thing. Second thing, we noticed also that they were several hundred meters far, the shot came from far. And what we, as DCI, we ask upon the Israeli government to open an impartial investigation and let the people and the world know about what happened exactly that day.”