Israel investigates incident in which soldiers threw bodies from rooftops in West Bank

The Israel Defense Forces told Fox News Digital that they are investigating an incident in which soldiers were filmed apparently heaving lifeless bodies from a roof during a military operation in the West Bank.

The scenes are said to have taken place on Thursday in the town of Qabatiya, where Israeli forces said they “eliminated four terrorists in an exchange of fire.”

“This is a serious incident that is not consistent with the IDF's values ​​and expectations of IDF soldiers,” military agency Fox News Digital said in a statement. “The incident is being investigated.”

In a video of the incident, according to the Associated Press, three soldiers can be seen picking up what appears to be a stiff body and dragging it to the edge of the roof while soldiers stand on the ground below. The soldiers on the roof look over the edge before lifting the body down.

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In another case, a soldier pushes a corpse toward the abyss before it disappears from view, AP reports.

The identity of the bodies was not immediately clear.

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An Israeli army bulldozer is seen in operation in the West Bank town of Qabatiya on Thursday, September 19. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Photos taken by AP during the military operation on Thursday show an Israeli army bulldozer moving near the buildings where the bodies were dumped.

“There is no military imperative to do this. It is simply a cruel way to treat Palestinian bodies,” Shawan Jabarin, the director of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, told the news agency after seeing the footage.

Palestinian gunmen take part in a march after Palestinian militants were killed during an Israeli military operation in Qabatiya on June 13. (Reuters/Raneen Sawafta)

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Israel said its troops killed a total of seven militants on Thursday – four during the firefight and three in an airstrike on a car carrying militants who the military said had fired at the troops. As of Friday, no militant group had claimed any of the dead were their fighters.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.