West Bank & Jerusalem
Israeli forces kill two Palestinian teenagers in settler-encircled village
Image credit: The Guardian
TOP News Brief
The Newsdesk gathers reporting from wire services and primary sources and rewrites every story in-house before publication. How our journalism is made →
Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian teenagers in al-Mughayyir after settlers and Israeli soldiers encircled the West Bank village, The Guardian reported. The operation saw military forces provide armed escort for settlers entering the village as the incident unfolded.
The killings occurred amid what the outlet described as an intensifying campaign of ethnic cleansing across the West Bank. During the same operation, Israeli troops razed an entire village located outside Hebron. The coordinated presence of settlers and military forces in the area underscored the scale of the action targeting Palestinian communities in the region.
