Two Palestinians killed in Israeli raids on West Bank

The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed on Monday that a 17-year-old Palestinian boy, Jamil Atef Hanani, succumbed to critical wounds he sustained from Israeli gunfire Sunday evening in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus.

Hanani was shot in the chest with live ammunition during an Israeli raid on Beit Furik, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society has reported.

He was transferred to Rafidia Governmental Hospital in Nablus, where he was later pronounced dead.

Another young Palestinian man was shot dead by an Israeli settler at the northern entrance to the occupied al-Khalil early Monday morning.

Palestinian media said that Ahmad Rabhi al-Atrash was killed after being shot in the head with live ammunition fired directly at him by an Israeli settler at the northern entrance to Hebron, near the bypass road.

Israeli occupation forces prevented Red Crescent paramedics who were present in the Ras al-Joura area near the bypass road from reaching the young man, leaving him to bleed to death on the ground.

After summoning his family to identify him, they took his body to an unknown location.

With the killing of al-Atrash, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli settlers since the beginning of this year has risen to 14, and the number since October 7, 2023, has reached 35, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.

This comes amid escalating settler attacks on villages and towns in the West Bank, carried out with the complicity and protection of the Israeli occupation forces.