A leading Israeli rights group accused occupation soldiers of shooting dead a second wounded Palestinian in an incident in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) last month.

A leading Israeli rights group accused occupation soldiers of shooting dead a second wounded Palestinian in an incident in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) last month.

The killing happened at the same time when Israeli sergeant Elor Azaria summarily executed one Palestinian on March 24, B’Tselem said on Monday.

Azaria fired shots at the head of a Palestinian, Abdul Fatah al-Sharif, who had already been wounded by Israeli fire after an alleged stabbing attack against Israelis and was lying on the ground.

A second Palestinian, Ramzi al-Qasrawi, who was also alleged to have been involved in the attack with Sharif, was until now believed to have died of his injuries.

But B’Tselem says it has obtained stunning testimonies from two residents of the neighborhood that Qasrawi had also been first wounded by Israeli soldiers and then summarily executed in the same manner as Sharif.

The testimonies were obtained following the Israeli army’s lifting of strict restrictions imposed on Tel Rumeida, the neighborhood where the incidents occurred, it said.

The rights group further said that both eyewitness, Noor Abu Aisha and Amani Abu Aisha, documented parts of the incident with their cameras, but not the moment al-Qasrawi was shot, adding that they were ready to testify before any official body if summoned.

“The two stated that, on the day of the incident, they began following events after they heard gunshots from the street,” read the B’Tselem statement.

“They said that after both al-Sharif and al-Qasrawi were lying injured on the road, clearly posing no danger to anyone, and even before additional troops and the paramedics arrived on the scene, a soldier (or officer) went up to al-Qasrawi and shot him twice in the neck or head from several meters away.”

For its part, occupation army denied on Tuesday the incident, saying they were "not consistent with the findings of the operational investigation."

"The shooting of the assailant was carried out to remove the threat posed by the assailant when he attacked security forces with a knife," the occupation army said in a statement.