Palestinian man shot dead by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank

A 20-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli soldiers during an attack by settlers on a Palestinian village near Ramallah on Sunday, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA.

Fathi Hamdan, the head of Deir Jarir village council, told the agency that armed settlers raided homes on the outskirts of the village before Israeli troops arrived at the scene.

He said that the man, Baraa Khairy Ali Maali, was shot after Israeli forces opened fire on the residents who were confronting the settlers.

He was taken to the Palestinian Medical Complex in Ramallah and later pronounced dead.

In comment to Haaretz, the Israeli military claimed that Maali as a "terrorist" who was throwing rocks at its soldiers.

More than 200 Palestinians – a quarter of whom were children - have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2025, amid surging settler violence. More than 1,000 have been killed since the Hamas-led attack triggered the war in Gaza on October 2023.

Settler rampages have intensified in recent weeks, with mobs of extremists attacking Palestinian farms and villages across the territory to disrupt the olive harvest.

The UN's humanitarian agency says settler violence during the harvest has reached its highest levels in years, with about 150 documented attacks this year.

More than 260 attacks took place in October alone.

Teen settler charged with terror offences

In another development, Israeli prosecutors also charged a teenage settler with terror-related offences for taking part in an attack on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank earlier this month.

The settler was among dozens of masked extremists who took part in an attack on Beit Lid, a village near Tulkarm in the north of the territory.

The mob set fire to vehicles, vandalised an industrial park, and attacked residents, injuring four people. They also attacked Israeli soldiers who arrived to contain the rampage.

In an indictment filed on Sunday, prosecutors accused the teenager of a number of offenses, including arson, aggravated intentional assault, malicious damage, and intended destruction of a vehicle.

They said that the attack was carried out "with a nationalist motive intended to instill fear and panic" in the residents of the village.

Israeli leaders issued rare condemnations of the violence, with President Isaac Herzog, who previously claimed that there were "no innocent civilians in Gaza" calling the attack "shocking and serious".