The UN must investigate the killing of unarmed Palestinian men on a beach in Gaza whose bodies were then bulldozed under the sand by Israeli soldiers, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said, Al Jazeera reports.

Video footage has emerged showing Israeli forces gunning down two men on Gaza’s coast who posed no threat, and then using a military bulldozer to bury their bodies.

Calling for an international investigation of the “heinous war crime”, the council said Israel appears to “kill Palestinians on a whim” and then treats the bodies of its victims “like trash”.

“The genocidal Israeli [government] must be investigated by the UN,” CAIR said on social media.

“This genocide must be stopped, not excused or supported with weapons [and] rhetoric.”