Visual ‘evidence’ of Israelis killing unarmed Palestinians confirms ‘atrocities’ in Gaza: Falk

Al Jazeera has obtained footage showing Israeli forces in Gaza shooting two unarmed Palestinians dead - at close range.

One of the men repeatedly waves what appears to be a piece of white fabric, to show they are not a threat.
This is an international symbol of surrender.
The bodies of the two Palestinians are then buried by an Israeli bulldozer.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum has more from Rafah, in southern Gaza.

Professor Richard Falk, a former UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestine, said the shooting of the two Palestinians on the coast in Gaza by Israeli forces was “vivid confirmation of continuing Israeli atrocities”.

The visual evidence of the killings also highlights the “unambiguous character of Israeli atrocities that are being carried out on a daily basis”, Falk told Al Jazeera.

The “real-time” exposure of such atrocities “has been part of what has been so shocking throughout this entire Israel onslaught on Gaza”, Falk said, speaking from California.

“The eyes and ears of the world have been assaulted in real-time by this form of genocidal behaviour. It is a shocking reality that there has been no adverse reaction from the liberal democracies in the West. It is a shameful moment in Western, international moral behaviour,” he said.

Falk added that Israel is unconcerned with upholding international humanitarian law and is refusing to alter its behaviour in Gaza despite the recent ceasefire resolution of the UN Security Council.

“Israel pursues its own objectives which are inconsistent and contradict international humanitarian law and the genocide convention and numerous other sources of legal authority,” he said.

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