International Desk:

Footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows unarmed Palestinian men – one repeatedly waving a piece of white cloth in a sign of surrender – before Israeli troops shoot them dead and then bury their bodies with a bulldozer near Gaza City.

The incident took place on a beach in the Gaza Strip in Palestine. Al-Jazeera, a Qatar-based media outlet, has obtained exclusive video footage of the incident.

Hamas condemns the killings, saying it is “further evidence of the scale of fascism and criminality that governs Zionist behaviour”.

At least nine people are killed in two separate Israeli strikes in the south of Lebanon as fighting continues to escalate with Hezbollah.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a US-based Muslim civil rights group, said the United Nations must investigate the killing of two unarmed Palestinian men on a Gaza beach and the bulldozing of their bodies under two sand dunes.

At least 32,490 Palestinians have been killed and 74,889 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attack stands at 1,139 with dozens still held captive.