Israel’s killing of two young Palestinian boys in Gaza for supposedly crossing the Israeli military’s ever-shifting yellow line last week is “horrific” and must be investigated, the UN has said.

“It’s hard to see how two boys, eight and 10, can be considered a threat. And there needs to be an investigation and accountability into what happened,” said Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, in remarks to the press on Wednesday.

Dujarric said the killing was “horrific, to say the least.”

On Saturday, Israeli forces killed two brothers, Juma and Fadi Tamer Abu Assi, in a drone strike east of Khan Younis. The young boys were sent out to gather firewood for the family, their father told CNN , and never came back.

The boys’ small bodies were torn to p

See Full Page