A Jewish settler shot and killed a Palestinian man while he was harvesting olives near Nablus. This incident adds to the number of Palestinians killed by settlers since the recent Hamas incursion into Israel.
JERUSALEM — A Jewish settler shot dead a Palestinian man harvesting olives near the West Bank city of Nablus, the man’s uncle said Sunday. This brings the number of Palestinians reported killed by settlers to seven since Hamas’s bloody incursion into Israel three weeks ago.
The deadly shooting took place amid a spike in settler violence since Hamas militants infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,400 Israelis and taking over 230 others hostage. The incursion touched off a war that has killed more than 7,700 Palestinians,Civilians inspect Palestinian Hassan Katanani's 2-storey house, where his family lives, after Israeli army demolished the house by planting explosives in Nablus, West Bank on October 29, 2023.
The Israeli military said it received a report of a “violent confrontation” between Palestinians and Israeli civilians, and that a Palestinian was reported killed. Police have opened an investigation, it said.
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