Israeli settlers kill Palestinian in West Bank, say officials
The UN says more than 80 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the start of 2026.
- On Thursday, Israeli militant settlers shot two Palestinians in the village of Yasuf in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, killing one and injuring the other, according to Palestinian officials.
- Village council head Jumaa Abdel Fattah said the assailants came from a settler outpost built near Yasuf two months ago, with settlers attacking the village continuously since its establishment.
- Violence has surged in the West Bank, where military and settler actions have killed more than 80 Palestinians since the beginning of 2026, according to UN data.
- Rights groups describe the increasing settler presence as a campaign to seize Palestinian land, while most countries regard these settlements as illegal under international law governing military occupations.
- Since capturing the West Bank in 1967, Israel has maintained military occupation under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has overseen a massive expansion of Jewish outposts despite international opposition.
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Israeli settlers shot at two Palestinians, killing one and wounding the other, during an attack on the village of Yasuf in the West Bank occupied by Israel, this Thursday, according to the Palestinian authorities. In the midst of an escalation of violence, the Israeli Armed Forces and settlers killed more than 80 Palestinians in the West Bank since the beginning of 2026, according to the United Nations (UN). In the most recent episode, settlers …
Two Palestinians were killed and two injured today by Israeli occupying forces fire in Salfit, West Bank.
Some Israeli extremist colonists have attacked the village of Yasuf, in the Central West Bank, causing the death of Mashhour Shaher Yassin, a 51-year-old Palestinian man reached by some bullets fired by the attackers. The news is reported by the Palestinian media, according to which, in addition to the victim, two other Palestinians and a boy were injured [...] L'articolo A Palestinian dies in an assault of settlers in the West Bank: wounds also…
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