Palestinian killed by Israeli fire amid series of reported West Bank settler attacks

IDF says ‘soldier on vacation shot a terrorist after he threw rocks at Israeli citizens’ near Tayasir, where Palestinians were said to clash with settlers over new wildcat outpost

A Palestinian was killed and several were injured amid multiple settler attacks across the West Bank on Wednesday, according to Palestinian media and video footage.

Reports said a Palestinian was fatally shot in the Tayasir area of the northern Jordan Valley amid a clash over a new Israeli wildcat outpost nearby. Tayasir is designated as Area A, where Israelis are prohibited from entering and the Palestinian Authority has full control under the Oslo Accords.

The dead Palestinian man was later identified as Alaa Khaled Subiah and described by outlets as a young man.

In a statement on the incident, the Israel Defense Forces said troops deployed to the area “following reports of an incident between Palestinians and Israeli citizens that included stone-throwing,” adding that an Israeli citizen and one Palestinian were taken for medical treatment.

“During an initial investigation, it turned out that a soldier on vacation shot a terrorist after he threw rocks at Israeli citizens, wounding one of them,” the IDF said, without specifying the injured Israeli’s condition.

“The case is being investigated and the details relayed to the authorized bodies.”

Earlier, settlers reportedly beat two young men near the village of Einabus in the Nablus area. Outlets reported that in the village of Burin, also in the Nablus area, assailants maced a Palestinian woman.

In the South Hebron Hills, settlers were filmed attacking two boys, ages 11 and 13.

Additionally, overnight, soldiers and settlers were documented entering a village in the South Hebron Hills, where they allegedly that attempted to steal livestock and assaulted one of the residents.

There were no reports of any arrests in any of the reported incidents.

The West Bank has recently seen a wave of rising extremist settler violence against Palestinians.

Violent attacks by radical elements against Palestinians and civil rights activists seeking to protect them have become a daily occurrence in the West Bank.

Prosecutions in the spate of near-daily settler attacks in the West Bank are rare, and convictions are even rarer. Critics have accused the government, said to be the most right-wing in Israel’s history, of shrugging off the attacks.