Palestinian man killed in West Bank by Israeli soldier backing up settlers

The occupied West Bank town’s politician says Thamin Khalil Reda Dawabsheh killed arsenic Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians.

A Palestinian antheral successful the occupied West Bank has been changeable dormant successful an onslaught instigated by Israeli settlers, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry arsenic cited by the Wafa quality agency.

Thamin Khalil Reda Dawabsheh, 35, was changeable Wednesday greeting successful the municipality of Duma, southbound of Nablus, by an Israeli off-duty worker who was accompanying “an Israeli civilian” adjacent Duma “during engineering works”, the Israeli service said.

Earlier Palestinian reports of the onslaught had stated that Dawabsheh was killed by an Israeli settler.

35-year-old Thameen Khalil Reda Dawabsheh succumbed to his wounds aft being changeable by colonists during an onslaught connected the village. pic.twitter.com/cHfdUg4Unl

— WAFA News Agency – English (@WAFANewsEnglish) August 13, 2025

According to the politician of Duma, Palestinians successful the municipality were “startled” by an Israeli settler attack, said Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim.

“The settlers started assaulting a 14-year-old, starring galore Palestinian men to spell and effort to support him,” Ibrahim said.

Later, much equipped settlers arrived, and they started shooting astatine the Palestinians, resulting successful the decease of Dawabsheh, “whose lone transgression was being connected his land”, she added.

Suleiman Dawabsheh, the caput of the Duma colony council, said that settlers attacked Palestinians and opened occurrence connected them successful the confederate portion of the village, amid land-levelling operations that person been taking spot successful the country for days, Palestinian quality bureau Wafa reported.

Ibrahim said that Thamin Dawabsheh’s sidesplitting is portion of a signifier of accrued Israeli settler unit against Palestinians that is often filmed connected camera.

“Every day, we stumble upon much videos showing however Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians – intimidating them, shooting them, sidesplitting them. And they are not being held accountable by the Israeli authorities,” said Ibrahim.

The connection published by the Israeli service claimed dozens of Palestinians were hurling rocks towards the Israeli civilian and soldier, and “in response, the worker fired to region the threat, and a deed was identified”.

A deadly signifier of Israeli military, settler attacks

Recently, 31-year-old Palestinian activistic and English teacher Awdah Hathaleen was changeable dormant by an Israeli settler connected July 28 successful the colony of Umm al-Kheir, southbound of Hebron.

Hathaleen was good known for his activism, including helping the creators of the Oscar-winning movie No Other Land, which documents Israeli settler and worker attacks connected the Palestinian assemblage of Masafer Yatta.

Israeli settlers, protected by the Israeli military, are often equipped and occurrence astatine volition against Palestinians who effort to halt them. They onslaught residents and pain spot with impunity, seldom if ever facing ineligible consequences.

The Israeli military has besides been intensifying its deadly raids, location demolitions and displacement campaigns successful the West Bank.

Violent attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers successful the occupied West Bank person surged since October 2023, successful tandem with Israel’s genocidal warfare successful Gaza, with the United Nations reporting that astir 650 Palestinians – including 121 children – person been killed successful the territory by Israeli forces and settlers betwixt January 1, 2024 and the commencement of July 2025.

A further 5,269 Palestinians were injured during that period, including 1,029 children.