DayofPal—Israeli settlers killed a 16-year-old Palestinian boy on Tuesday morning after running him over as he was on his way to school north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
At about 6:00 a.m., Mohammad Majdi Al-Ja’bari was riding his bicycle to school when he was struck by a vehicle driven by an Israeli settler.
The vehicle reportedly belonged to the security staff of an Israeli government minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who ia residing in an illegal settlement in Hebron. The child was killed instantly.
Violence and harassment by Israeli settlers continued unabated across the occupied West Bank, with their attacks increasing dramatically since the start of the genocide in Gaza.
According to United Nations data, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, by Israeli forces and settlers since 7 October 2023, one in five of those killed were children.
Recently, OCHA confirmed that 1,079 Palestinians, at least 235 of them children, were killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem between 7 October 2023 and 30 March 2026. Of these, over 33 have been killed since the beginning of 2026.
Sttler violence has also become a key driver of forced displacement in the occupied West Bank, OCHA revealed.
The attacks come as Israel’s security cabinet ratified a series of decisions pushed by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Defence Minister Israel Katz, enabling Israel to claim large areas of the occupied West Bank as “state property”.
Amnesty International said the expansion of illegal settlements and state-backed settler violence in the occupied Palestinian territory were “a direct indictment of the international community’s catastrophic failure to take decisive action”.
In a report issued in March by the UN, the number of Palestinians forcibly driven from their homes by Israel in the occupied West Bank surged 25% between 1 November 2024 and 31 October 2025.
Over that period, more than 36,000 Palestinians were displaced. The report recorded 1,732 incidents of settler violence that caused casualties or property destruction, up from 1,400 in the previous reporting period – an increase of nearly 25 percent.
The attacks included sustained harassment, intimidation and the destruction of Palestinian homes, farmland and livelihoods.
“Settler violence continued in a coordinated, strategic and largely unchallenged manner, with Israeli authorities playing the central role in directing, participating in or enabling this conduct,” the report said, making it difficult to distinguish between state and settler violence.
Longstanding and pervasive impunity is “facilitating and encouraging violence against and harassment of Palestinians”, it added.
Israeli soldiers and settlers are also using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts said this week.
Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, including to minors, and threats of sexual violence.
“Sexualized violence is used to pressure communities, shape decisions about remaining or leaving their homes and land, and alter patterns of daily life,” the group of international humanitarian organisations said in a report.
The study, “Sexual violence and forcible transfer in the West Bank”, details accounts of escalating sexualised attacks and humiliation of Palestinians in their communities and inside their homes since 2023.
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