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Palestinian families in Qusra, West Bank, have been besieged by Israeli settlers for four days, with water and electricity cut off and security forces failing to fully disperse them; clashes have continued as Israel expands settlements, drawing UN warnings of a breaking point amid rising casualties and displacements.
A fatal confrontation near Nablus left four Palestinians and two Israelis dead, triggering a surge in attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank. Both sides blame the other as the violence spreads, amid far-right government moves to accelerate new settlement outposts. Israel’s army says it condemns nationalist violence and is working to prevent incidents. BBC’s Lucy Williamson reports from Palestinian villages around Nablus.
A deadly incident in the Palestinian village of Tell near Nablus left four Palestinians and one Israeli settler dead after clashes involving settlers and Israeli forces, with several others injured. Israel pledged an extensive West Bank operation, including measures against the accused and home demolitions, while Palestinian authorities condemned the attack and called it a massacre; video circulated showing clashes in a field as tensions threaten wider reprisals.
Four Palestinians were killed and several others injured when Israeli settlers attacked the town of Tal near Nablus in the occupied West Bank; one Israeli settler was killed as clashes with Palestinians and Israeli forces followed, prompting a security cordon around Tal. Palestinian authorities say the West Bank toll this year has reached 86 Palestinians, including 21 shot by settlers, underscoring escalating violence in the area.
17-year-old Fadi Hamdallah al-Nassan, a Palestinian national youth team player, died from gunshot injuries after Israeli settlers attacked the village of al-Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank; shot July 11, he died following a leg amputation. The death underlines ongoing settler violence, with the Palestinian Football Association noting 1,013 sports-linked martyrs since Oct 2023, as separate West Bank incidents—arson and raids near Ramallah, Nablus, and Jenin—also occur.
US Representative Ro Khanna says he was detained for over an hour by armed Israeli settlers in a West Bank village; Israeli officials and allies criticized him, with the ambassador accusing Khanna of coordinating his trip with Palestinian groups. Khanna and his supporters push back, calling for accountability for settlers and disputing the military’s version of events. The episode amplifies ongoing debates over the occupation, settler violence, and the US–Israel relationship amid broader international scrutiny of Israel’s policies.
A seven-month-old boy, Sam, was killed when an Israeli soldier fired on a car in Hebron, wounding his mother and leaving the family seeking accountability amid rising violence and checkpoints in the West Bank.
Israeli forces fired on a family’s car in the Tel Rumeida area near Hebron, killing seven-month-old Sam Fahd Abu Haikal and wounding his parents. The IDF said the vehicle appeared to accelerate toward soldiers and a preliminary inquiry found the injured were uninvolved civilians; the incident drew international concern and highlighted ongoing violence in the West Bank.
Aws al-Nasaan, 14, was fatally shot near his school in Al-Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank, part of a spike in settler violence linked to settlement expansion; the attack, captured on video, also left others dead, and eyewitnesses say Israeli soldiers did not intervene. The IDF has suspended the reservist shooter and confiscated his weapon, while rights groups warn of rising violence and impunity, with UN data showing about 42 Palestinians killed this year as settlements expand and security crackdowns tighten restrictions on Palestinians.
Meead Abu al-Rub, a Palestinian activist, says she and fellow demonstrators were harassed and threatened by armed settlers with Israeli soldiers present during an October olive-harvest protest in Idhna’s Suba area. A photo of her on L’Espresso’s cover drew global attention and provoked condemnation from Israel; the magazine later released the full video. Meead now fears for her safety as settler violence and displacement rise in the West Bank in 2026, despite international scrutiny.
South Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung, posted a 2024 video showing Israeli soldiers pushing a body from a building in the occupied West Bank, triggering Israeli condemnation as an unacceptable trivialization of Jewish suffering on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Lee later clarified the event’s authenticity, noting US condemnation and calling for universal humanitarian principles and adherence to international law, as Seoul sought to defuse a rare diplomatic spat with Israel amid broader Middle East tensions.
Israeli strikes across central and southern Gaza killed at least seven Palestinians and wounded others, including hits near a Bureij police post and a displacement camp in Bani Suheila, with hospitals reporting fatalities and critical injuries. The Gaza death toll has surpassed 72,000 since October 2023. UN rights chief Volker Turk condemned the violence, calling it part of an unrelenting pattern. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces and settlers conducted raids and arrests, while 34 new West Bank settlements were recently approved, drawing international condemnation from the EU, Turkiye, Sweden and the OIC.
Israeli settlers torched homes and vehicles in al-Fandaqumiya and Seilat al-Dahr near Jenin, wounding at least one resident, with additional attacks reported in Masafer Yatta and other West Bank sites during Eid al-Fitr—part of a broader surge of settler violence in the occupied territory.
An undercover Israeli border police unit killed four members of a Palestinian family in Tamoun, West Bank—two young brothers and their parents—who were returning from Ramadan shopping; two siblings survived. Authorities say the car posed an immediate threat as it accelerated, but the incident, part of a broader spike in West Bank violence, is being reviewed and ambulances faced delays as the car was towed.
Palestinian American Nasrallah Abu Siyam, 19, was fatally shot during clashes in Mukhmas after Israeli settlers attacked a village; residents and witnesses said Israeli forces arrived and used riot-control methods, while settlers fired live rounds. The incident, part of a broader rise in West Bank violence and displacement, underscores concerns about accountability for settler violence amid international scrutiny of the conflict.