The United Nations said on Friday the killing of two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank by Israeli security forces as they appeared to be surrendering, unarmed, looked like a "summary execution."

"We're appalled by the brazen killing by Israeli border police yesterday of two Palestinian men in Jenin in the occupied West Bank in yet another apparent summary execution," UN human rights office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence told a briefing in Geneva.

The two men killed on Thursday appeared to be unarmed and surrendering during a raid in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestine TV news footage showed.

The Israeli military and police issued a joint statement announcing that they had opened an investigation after forces opened fire toward suspects who had exited a building.

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