Conflict in the West Bank has soared since Hamas' October 7 assault on IsraelIsraeli forces shot and killed the son of a leader of Hamas in the West Bank in an early-morning raid on Friday.
Advertisement 'Muhammad is a central Hamas operative in the area and has been engaged in the promotion of significant terrorist operations against Israel in recent months. It followed news earlier this week three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh had been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, according to his family.
'I am grateful to God for the honor he has given me in the deaths of three of my children and a few of my grandchildren,' Haniyeh said, from Qatar. His father, Afif Abu Alia, said he was shot and killed but was unsure whether the fatal bullet was fired by an armed settler or an Israeli soldier. The body of Palestinian Muhammad Rasoul Daraghmeh is brought to the morgue in Tubas, West Bank on April 12, 2024View of the site where a militant named Mohammed-Rasoul Daraghmeh was killed by Israeli forces during a raid, in Tubas, in the West Bank April 12, 2024
Even before October, around two-thirds of the population were reliant on food aid, the organisation says. Responding to plans to include the Ahiya outpost within the jurisdiction of the Shilo settlement in the northern West Bank in March, the NGO said in a statement: 'Establishing another settlement is the last thing Israel needs.
The signatories 'express their grave concern about the record number of attacks by extremist settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank,' a statement read. A view of damaged houses and burning vehicles after a raid by Jewish settlers on the Mughir town near Ramallah, West Bank on April 12, 2024A Palestinian wounded in a settler rampage at the Palestine Medical Complex in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, April 12, 2024