The crackdown that followed the Nablus-area shooting has turned into land-taking: Israel seized Palestinian Authority land to link two settlements, Israeli media cited by Daily Sabah report. Italy and Saudi Arabia oppose annexation, while Israeli politicians show little will to curb settlers, The National says.
The West Bank is territory occupied by Israel, where Palestinian communities and Israeli settlements exist alongside one another and where deadly incidents involving both populations recur. Violence there often escalates in cycles: a shooting or killing is followed by reprisals, including attacks on homes and property. Because such episodes are frequently disputed, initial official accounts of who fired, and why, often diverge and are revised. This topic tracks Friday's shooting, in which six people were killed, and the arson and unrest that followed.
Israeli forces seized land under Palestinian Authority administration in the occupied West Bank in order to connect two illegal Israeli settlements, according to an Israeli media report cited by Daily Sabah. The National reported that Israeli politicians have shown little appetite for curbing the settler rampage in the West Bank, while Italy and Saudi Arabia said they oppose Israeli annexation efforts there.
A deadly settler attack outside Nablus, in Tal, set off what Al Jazeera describes as days of raids, arson, closures and mass arrests across the occupied West Bank. More than 550 former Israeli officials and generals wrote to President Donald Trump urging him to press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over settler violence, which they say endangers Israel's future.
Israeli forces raided at least 20 towns and villages in the occupied West Bank as well as a United Nations facility, demolishing homes and making arrests, according to Tehran Times, while the Jerusalem Post reports nine people were detained after the Gilad Farm shooting, among them the suspected gunman's father, whom police did not accuse of involvement in the attack itself. Palestinian rescue workers cited by Le Monde and The National say a 28-year-old pregnant woman lost her unborn child after her ambulance was held for more than 30 minutes at a checkpoint near Nablus, an account the Israeli
Palestinian officials said Israeli settlers set fire to and defaced two mosques in the northern occupied West Bank, as reported by Al Jazeera, Le Monde and Folha de S.Paulo. The attacks followed violence on Friday in a Palestinian village near Nablus in which four Palestinians and two Israelis were killed, and the Israeli army has warned of a wider escalation.
Israeli forces have begun a large-scale military operation against a village in the occupied West Bank following a day of deadly violence, according to The National. Further details on casualties and the course of the raid were not given in the report.
Authorities said four Palestinians and two Israelis were killed on Friday in a shooting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, one of the deadliest incidents in months, according to the New York Times and Folha de S.Paulo. Details remain unclear and officials have given differing accounts, while The National reports that houses have been set alight as tensions flare over the killings.