A Palestinian was killed by an Israeli settler in the Nablus area of the northern occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry said.
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Bilal Abou Salah, 40, was killed in the village of Sawiya near Nablus “by a bullet to the chest fired by a settler,” the ministry said in a statement.
Sawiya mayor Mahmoud Hassan told AFP that Bilal Abou Salah was killed while picking olives with other family members on their land not far from the colony’s security fence. Israeli from Rechelim.
“They were attacked by four settlers and one of them, armed with an M16 rifle, opened fire on them without warning. Abu Salah was hit in the chest and died in front of his family and children,” he said.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to questions from AFP.
Since the war in the Gaza Strip between Hamas and Israel broke out on October 7, more than 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli army operations in the West Bank.
The situation in the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967, was already tense before this war, with Israeli forces conducting regular raids and increasing attacks by Israeli settlers on the Palestinian population.