Palestinian authorities revealed that Israeli settlers attacked two Palestinian villages in the West Bank late Saturday, resulting in the death of a man and the burning of a vehicle. The Palestinian ambulance service reported that a 38-year-old man in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan in northern West Bank was shot in the chest while residents clashed with settlers and Israeli soldiers. The Israeli army stated that soldiers arrived at the scene and used crowd control measures and live ammunition to disperse the confrontation between residents and settlers. It mentioned that Palestinians responded with fireworks, adding that one Israeli and four Palestinians were injured in the clashes.
In another incident, the head of the council of the village of Madama near the city of Nablus in northern West Bank, Wajih Qat, noted that a group of 15 settlers set a car on fire and shattered windows of a house with stones. The organization Yesh Din (There is a Law), an Israeli volunteer organization focusing on human rights in the West Bank that monitors settler violence, reported that there have been 225 incidents of violence by settlers in 93 Palestinian residential areas since the beginning of the war. Prior to Saturday's incident, the organization stated that at least nine Palestinians had been killed in those attacks.
