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🟥 Israeli soldiers abducted this Palestinian man in the West Bank, then executed him as he walked away with his hands up.

This happened in Yatta, Hebron. They shot him in the back of the head with a projectile grenade. It was a war crime. And it was filmed.

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📹 The video: Yatta, Hebron

This is not Gaza where we now see videos like this daily. This is in the West Bank.

It starts with a man.
A Palestinian man.
Walking away from a group of Israeli soldiers.

His hands are up.
He’s not running.
He’s not resisting.
He’s not holding a weapon.

Moments earlier, he had been abducted by Israeli forces.
What happened in between is unclear.
But what happens next is unmistakable.

As he walks — slowly, carefully — an Israeli soldier fires a projectile grenade directly at the back of his head.

It explodes.
He collapses.
And the soldiers walk casually away.


🧱 This is not an anomaly. It’s the architecture of apartheid.

What happened in Yatta is not new.
Hebron has long been one of the most militarized, surveilled, and violently segregated places in the West Bank.

In Hebron:

  • Palestinians are banned from streets Jewish settlers walk freely

  • Checkpoints outnumber stop signs

  • Armed settlers patrol neighborhoods under army protection

  • Children are routinely arrested during night raids

  • And executions like this — filmed or not — happen again and again


🩸 This is a war crime. Under any definition.

  • Extrajudicial execution is illegal under international law

  • Killing a detainee — someone already in custody — is banned under the Fourth Geneva Convention

  • And using high-explosive weaponry on an unarmed person is not just excessive force. It is deliberate murder.

But this is the logic of apartheid:
If the system sees you as less than human, then killing you doesn’t violate its code.


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This video is not just evidence.
It’s testimony.

Of a people under siege.
Of a state that kills with impunity.
Of a world that pretends not to see.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Shaun King is one of the most followed and shared activists and journalists in the world. Hailed by Time Magazine as “1 of the 25 most influential people in the world on the Internet,” Shaun is most known for fighting against police brutality and mass incarceration in the United States, the genocide of the Palestinian people, and oppression around the world. Devout Muslims, Shaun and his wife of 25 years, Dr. Rai King, are proud parents of five wonderful children.

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