Did Israeli Soldiers Execute Palestinian Militants During The Gaza War?

Smoke rises in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli strike. Reuters

Did Israel Execute Jihadists In Gaza? -- Jacob Seigel, Daily Beast

While official investigations are stalled, The Daily Beast reveals important new details about the apparent summary execution of Palestinian combatants.

GAZA CITY, Gaza—More than a month after The Daily Beast reported evidence suggesting Israeli soldiers carried out the summary execution of six men amid fierce combat in late July, there are no signs that the Israeli government is investigating the matter. It has declined to respond to repeated inquiries. The independent organizations Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, which the Israeli authorities have barred from Gaza, are unable to follow up in detail. And a United Nations investigation of abuses on both sides is barely under way.

The Daily Beast has continued its own investigation, however. And the picture that’s emerging tends to confirm the story of a summary execution, on the one hand, while undermining subsequent reports by some in the international press who suggest the dead men, left to rot in the bathroom of a battered house, were merely innocent bystanders. Instead, they appear to have been hardened guerrilla fighters from Islamic Jihad who were trying to ambush Israeli soldiers when they themselves were caught, captured, herded into an abandoned bathroom and gunned down in an incident that, if confirmed, would be a war crime.

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My Comment: If an Islamic Jihad fighter is this article's main source for information .... I will treat such a report with a grain of salt. But what we do know is that the battle in this region of Gaza was intense .... and many were killed. Were some executed .... absent of any video evidence or an Israeli soldier confessing .... we will never know.