The occupied West Financial institution city’s mayor says Thamin Khalil Reda Dawabsheh killed as Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians.
A Palestinian man within the occupied West Financial institution has been shot useless in an assault instigated by Israeli settlers, based on the Palestinian Well being Ministry as cited by the Wafa information company.
Thamin Khalil Reda Dawabsheh, 35, was shot Wednesday morning within the city of Duma, south of Nablus, by an Israeli off-duty soldier who was accompanying “an Israeli civilian” close to Duma “throughout engineering works”, the Israeli military stated.
Earlier Palestinian stories of the assault had said that Dawabsheh was killed by an Israeli settler.
35-year-old Thameen Khalil Reda Dawabsheh succumbed to his wounds after being shot by colonists throughout an assault on the village. pic.twitter.com/cHfdUg4Unl
— WAFA Information Company – English (@WAFANewsEnglish) August 13, 2025
In keeping with the mayor of Duma, Palestinians within the city have been “startled” by an Israeli settler assault, stated Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim.
“The settlers began assaulting a 14-year-old, main many Palestinian males to go and attempt to defend him,” Ibrahim stated.
Later, extra armed settlers arrived, they usually began capturing on the Palestinians, ensuing within the loss of life of Dawabsheh, “whose solely crime was being on his land”, she added.
Suleiman Dawabsheh, the top of the Duma village council, stated that settlers attacked Palestinians and opened fireplace on them within the southern a part of the village, amid land-levelling operations which have been going down within the space for days, Palestinian information company Wafa reported.
Ibrahim stated that Thamin Dawabsheh’s killing is a part of a sample of elevated Israeli settler violence towards Palestinians that’s usually filmed on digital camera.
“Day-after-day, we encounter extra movies displaying how Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians – intimidating them, capturing them, killing them. And they don’t seem to be being held accountable by the Israeli authorities,” stated Ibrahim.
The assertion revealed by the Israeli military claimed dozens of Palestinians have been hurling rocks in the direction of the Israeli civilian and soldier, and “in response, the soldier fired to take away the risk, and successful was recognized”.
A lethal sample of Israeli army, settler assaults
Not too long ago, 31-year-old Palestinian activist and English trainer Awdah Hathaleen was shot useless by an Israeli settler on July 28 within the village of Umm al-Kheir, south of Hebron.
Hathaleen was well-known for his activism, together with serving to the creators of the Oscar-winning movie No Different Land, which paperwork Israeli settler and soldier assaults on the Palestinian neighborhood of Masafer Yatta.
Israeli settlers, protected by the Israeli army, are sometimes armed and fireplace at will towards Palestinians who attempt to cease them. They assault residents and burn property with impunity, not often if ever going through authorized penalties.
The Israeli military has additionally been intensifying its lethal raids, residence demolitions and displacement campaigns within the West Financial institution.
Violent attacks by Israeli settlers and troopers within the occupied West Financial institution have surged since October 2023, in tandem with Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, with the United Nations reporting that just about 650 Palestinians – together with 121 youngsters – have been killed within the territory by Israeli forces and settlers between January 1, 2024 and the beginning of July 2025.
An additional 5,269 Palestinians have been injured throughout that interval, together with 1,029 youngsters.
