
Five pupils killed in a year at West Bank school besieged by settlers and soldiers, teacher testifies
A teacher at Al Mughayyir's boys' school describes a year of settler and military violence that has killed five pupils, including his own brother.
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A teacher at Al Mughayyir's boys' school describes a year of settler and military violence that has killed five pupils, including his own brother.

Settlers armed with clubs beat a 23-year-old Palestinian man in Beitillu village, leaving him hospitalized with severe injuries, an Israeli activist group documented.

Israeli checkpoints around Nablus have cut a dairy factory's sales by up to 40%, part of a documented $16.8 million monthly drag on the West Bank economy.

B'Tselem's new report, drawing on nearly 2,000 testimonies, argues Israeli raids, demolitions, checkpoints and settler violence in the West Bank form one coordinated system of elimination.

Al Jazeera reports Palestinian families in Qaryut, West Bank, say settlers backed by Israeli forces are pushing them off homes and land in Area B.
Anadolu Agency reports Israeli forces declared a playground in Umm al-Khair a closed military zone and attacked journalists and children there.

Palestinians in Kobar and Deir Jarir describe armed settlers posing as soldiers; B'Tselem says a reservist-settler shot an unarmed man in the back.

OCHA has recorded over 1,300 settler attacks and 2,300 Palestinian displacements in the West Bank in 2026, as recurring military-backed incursions reshape access to land and movement.

Israeli forces closed al-Mughayyir's only entrance for over 20 hours after a settler raid left three Palestinians wounded and 15 lambs stolen.

UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Parliament settlers are committing ethnic cleansing with government backing, announcing an import ban, sanctions and arms export restrictions.

Video shows a Palestinian man on the ground outside Al-Mughayyir as soldiers shut a military vehicle's doors and drive away, an Israeli rights group says after a detention and beating.
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Bulldozers razed kilometres of olive groves near Arraba as a new settlement and reoccupied military camp encircle the town, the mayor says.