Residents of Deir Jarir say series of raids late on Sunday, also involving security forces, is part of a pattern of violenceEven by the brutal standards of militant settler violence in the West Bank, the raid on Deir Jarir late on Sunday night that killed two Palestinians and left another in hospital with a gunshot wound was extreme.Palestinians in the town said settlers from a nearby outpost arrived after 9pm on Sunday claiming that they were searching for stolen livestock. Israeli soldiers and police soon joined them, protecting them as they sought to take several villagers’ sheep by force. Violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has surged since the outbreak of the Gaza war, with rights groups and the UN reporting near-daily attacks by Israeli settlers
Israeli forces, settlers kill two in Ramallah Gunfire from Israeli forces and settlers killed two Palestinians in the town of Deir Jarir east of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported, citing Palestinian health ministry. pic.twitter.com/QWXBP6KiLv— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) July 19, 2026
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