Today, Friday, the American newspaper The Washington Post published an investigation into the direct targeting of Palestinian citizens by the Israeli special forces, especially children, by killing them.

The newspaper pointed out that Israeli incursions have always been an essential element of life in the occupied West Bank, but they often occurred at night, and usually ended in arrests. However, this year, under the most right-wing government in Israel's history, an increasing number of incursions were carried out during Daytime in densely populated areas like Jenin.

The Washington newspaper synchronized 15 video clips of the bloody Israeli storming of the city of Jenin on the day of last March 16, which led to the death of 4 Palestinians, namely Nidal Khazim, Youssef Shreim, Omar Awadin, and Louay Al-Saghir. The investigation obtained video footage from surveillance cameras from the shops adjacent to the place of the storming. Israeli Special Forces, the newspaper spoke to nine witnesses and obtained testimonies from four others to re-film the intrusion in 3D.

The newspaper quoted a number of experts with whom I spoke, that the Israeli storming of the city of Jenin on the day of March 16 is a violation of the international ban on extrajudicial killings, and that this violation is exacerbated by the fact that those whom Israel claimed were armed did not pose any threat to the Israeli forces at the time of the assassination. In addition to the presence of many civilians in the place.

"One can say with a degree of confidence that these are extrajudicial executions," former UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions Philip Alston told The Washington Post after reviewing the evidence presented by the newspaper.

Alston added that the "failure" to capture the two youths "was then compounded by more fatal shots even after the two individuals had been neutralised".

For his part, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Michael Lynk said: "These killings are largely unlawful under international standards, and their illegality is compounded by the choice to carry out the assassinations in a clearly crowded civilian market."

Link noted that neither of the two youths targeted in the raid "appeared to represent any threat, not even an imminent threat, and they could have been arrested."

Michael Sfard, a human rights lawyer who has previously challenged the legality of Israel's assassinations in the Israeli Supreme Court, called the Jenin raid "a perfect example of how Israel carries out operations involving lethal force."

The basic principle is that "do not open fire unless you are in danger," said Roni Bailey, a lawyer with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. But according to human rights organizations, the question of what constitutes a danger is hazy under Israeli law.

The newspaper said that some of the secret American documents that were recently leaked through the "Discord" platform via the Internet shed light on the growing fears of the United States that the Israeli incursions into the West Bank, including the occupation's incursion into the city of Nablus on February 22, when the Israeli forces fired Fire on a group of civilians, all of this may sabotage international efforts to calm the situation in the region.

She added that one of the secret assessments of the occupation's storming of the city of Jenin on March 7 warned that a storm of this kind would "push the Palestinians to respond (i.e., revenge) with certainty."