On Saturday evening, Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank.
Update: The two slain Palestinians have been officially identified as Ziad Na’im Abdul-Jabbar Abu Daoud, 55, and Ahmad Khalil Rajabi, 20.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its medics transferred the body of Ziad to Hebron Governmental Hospital, and added that Israeli forces refused to release the corpse of Ahmad Khalil Rajabi, 20. Abu Daoud, one of the slain Palestinians, was a sanitation worker with the Hebron City Council.
The army alleged the two had carried out a “car‑ramming attempt” that lightly injured one soldier, but eyewitnesses and humanitarian groups disputed this account, describing the killings as a field execution.
The Israeli Army Radio later admitted that Abu Daoud was not in the car that was targeted by the soldiers, but was near it.
In a brief statement, the Israeli army claimed the vehicle accelerated toward paratroopers from the Paratrooper Brigade near a military roadblock before they opened fire, adding that one soldier sustained light injuries.
The incident occurred in Bab al‑Zawiya, central Hebron. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its ambulances were blocked and medics prevented from reaching the victims.
The PRCS added that the army later handed over the body of one of the slain Palestinians to its medics, confirming that he was a sanitation worker employed by the Hebron City Council.
Eyewitnesses reported that soldiers unleashed heavy gunfire at the car before dragging the two Palestinians out.
They stressed that the vehicle posed no threat, noting the troops were positioned behind concrete blocks installed by the army years earlier.
