"A senior Palestinian official submitted a request to the United Nations on Monday asking it to formally investigate what he called Israeli extrajudicial 'executions' of Palestinian attackers, days after a soldier was filmed shooting to death a wounded assailant in Hebron.
Saeb Erekat, a top aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and senior PLO official, submitted the request during a meeting with the UN special coordinator for the peace process, Nickolay Mladenov.
In a statement after the meeting, Erekat said that 207 Palestinians had been 'executed' by Israel since last September, which 'requires an urgent international investigation,' according to a report in the Palestinian news outlet Safa.
The number roughly matches the number of Palestinians killed during a six-month round of terrorism and violence against Israel. The Israeli army says about two-thirds of them were killed while attacking soldiers, police or civilians, and the rest during clashes with troops..."