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There was no immediate comment from Israel on the footage, which
emerged after Israeli border police said on Monday its commandos
had raided Tulkarm to arrest a wanted militant and had killed
three Palestinian gunmen in a clash.
The footage of Monday's incident showed Israeli security forces
approaching a house at night and opening fire on a group of
young men, at least one of them armed, after they rushed out of
the house into the street.
Two of the men were hit in the street and lay still, while
footage taken from another angle shows a third man shot.
The footage showed an Israeli security forces vehicle coming up
to two bodies on the ground and driving over one of them, at one
point coming to a stop on the man's legs.
Images apparently recorded later show one body having apparently
been moved to the side of the road while another vehicle backs
over the other body and then maneuvers over it twice more.
Asked about the footage, a border police spokesperson referred
Reuters the Israeli military spokesperson's office, which did
not immediately comment.
Footage from a different camera at the same scene, apparently
taken moments earlier, showed several Palestinians running from
the house, with one handing a rifle to another, who was
immediately shot. The footage shows the two men in the street
from a different angle as well as the third man, lying in the
driveway of the house.
The Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs issued a statement
condemning the incident, which it said reflected a "culture of
hatred and extremism".
The Tulkarm Brigades, an armed militant group linked to Fatah,
which leads the internationally-recognized Palestinian
Authority, claimed one of the Palestinians killed on Monday as
its member.
Tulkarm, location of one of the main crossing points between the
West Bank and Israel, has seen repeated raids by Israeli
security forces since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, a
Fatah rival which runs Gaza.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on
Wednesday, after pressing Israel's leaders to offer a pathway to
a Palestinian state.
(Reporting by Raneen Sawafta, Mustafa Abu Ganeyeh; Writing by
James Mackenzie; Editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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