Occupied West Bank (QNN)- Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were shot and killed by Israeli settlers on Tuesday in the village of Al-Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank. A total of three Palestinians have been killed so far today by Israeli settlers across the occupied territories, including two children, amid a spike in settler violence against Palestinians.
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Aws Hamdi Al-Naasan, a 14-year-old, and Marzouq Abu Naim, a 32-year-old, were killed and four others were wounded during a shooting by Israeli settlers in the village of Al-Mughayyir near Ramallah, West Bank.
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Israeli settlers and soldiers attacked farmers in al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah, on Tuesday morning while they were working their land in the Wadi Amar area, south of Al-Mughayyir, local sources said, adding they attempted to expel them and prevent them from cultivating their land.
The killing of the two, one of them a student, came during an attack by settlers on Al-Mughair Boys School, local sources said.
Footage circulating on social media, reportedly filmed by residents of the village, shows an armed Israeli settler opening fire on people without hesitation. The settler was identified as Shmuel Effendi.
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The Ministry of Health said four Palestinians have been killed so far since this morning in the occupied West Bank.
Aws Al-Naasan's father, Hamdi, was also killed by Israeli settlers in 2019, sources noted.
Earlier, 16-year-old Muhammad Majdi al-Ja'bari was run over and killed by a settler in Hebron, and 49-year-old Raja' Fadl Bitawi succumbed to injuries sustained from Israeli gunfire in Jenin nearly two years ago.
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According to United Nations data, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, by Israeli forces and settlers since 7 October 2023, one in five of those killed were children.
Recently, OCHA confirmed that 1,079 Palestinians, at least 235 of them children, were killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem between 7 October 2023 and 30 March 2026. Of these, over 33 have been killed since the beginning of 2026.
Violence and harassment by Israeli settlers continued unabated across the occupied West Bank, OCHA added. The attacks have risen dramatically since the start of the genocide in Gaza.
Sttler violence has also become a key driver of forced displacement in the occupied West Bank.
The attacks come as Israel’s security cabinet ratified a series of decisions pushed by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Defence Minister Israel Katz, enabling Israel to claim large areas of the occupied West Bank as “state property”. Amnesty International said the expansion of illegal settlements and state-backed settler violence in the occupied Palestinian territory were “a direct indictment of the international community’s catastrophic failure to take decisive action”.
In a report issued in March by the UN, the number of Palestinians forcibly driven from their homes by Israel in the occupied West Bank surged 25 percent between 1 November 2024 and 31 October 2025.
Over that period, more than 36,000 Palestinians were displaced. The report recorded 1,732 incidents of settler violence that caused casualties or property destruction, up from 1,400 in the previous reporting period - an increase of nearly 25 percent.
The attacks included sustained harassment, intimidation and the destruction of Palestinian homes, farmland and livelihoods.
“Settler violence continued in a coordinated, strategic and largely unchallenged manner, with Israeli authorities playing the central role in directing, participating in or enabling this conduct,” the report said, making it difficult to distinguish between state and settler violence.
Longstanding and pervasive impunity is “facilitating and encouraging violence against and harassment of Palestinians”, it added.
Israeli soldiers and settlers are also using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts said this week.
Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, including to minors, and threats of sexual violence.
“Sexualised violence is used to pressure communities, shape decisions about remaining or leaving their homes and land, and alter patterns of daily life,” the group of international humanitarian organisations said in a report.
The study, “Sexual violence and forcible transfer in the West Bank”, details accounts of escalating sexualised attacks and humiliation of Palestinians in their communities and inside their homes since 2023.
