SECURITY camera footage from a West Bank village appears to show Israeli troops shooting one Palestinian dead and wounding two others — without provocation.

In the fatal shooting, caught on camera in the village of Beit Rima last week, a young man, Osaid Rimawi, standing in a central square was shot and dropped to the ground. Two others rushing to his aid are also hit, leaving the teenager dead, moments before Israeli military jeeps roll in.

One of the wounded Palestinians was shot a second time after he got up and tried to hop away.

The Israeli military said troops entered Beit Rima on Thursday night as part of a “counter-terrorism operation.”

It said troops fired at suspects who threw explosives and fire bombs at them.

The video, from a local shop, does not show anyone throwing explosives.

After reviewing the footage, a military spokesperson said soldiers reported that one of the Palestinians was igniting a Molotov cocktail when he was shot.

The video, however, shows that the first shot does not hit the kneeling man, but rather another Palestinian man, Nader Rimawi. 

Mr Nader said the object was a stack of cardboard boxes and scraps of paper that the teenager had gathered and was preparing to light to keep the men warm.

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said that even if questionable shootings are caught on camera and investigated by the military, they rarely result in indictments.

Dror Sadot, a spokesperson for the group, said: “Cases like these happen quite regularly, but no-one’s hearing about them. 

“The military will say that it is opening an investigation. And this investigation will last for years, probably without any media covering it. And then it will be washed down the drain.”

In response to Sadot’s allegation, a military spokesperson provided this statement: “Each investigation file is examined according to its circumstances.”

This latest apparent war crime comes as South Africa’s case that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza opens with preliminary hearings at the UN International Court of Justice.

The case, which is likely to take years to resolve, comes as the death toll in Gaza reached at least 23,200, with nearly 85 per cent of the 2.3 million population driven from their homes.