Israeli human rights NGO working in Israel and the West Bank since 2005
Reports have documented a continuing surge of violent attacks by Israeli settlers across the occupied West Bank this spring: arson, beatings, shootings and property destruction. Israeli forces are regularly present during incidents, with limited arrests reported; Palestinian authorities say bodies have been withheld after some killings, preventing burial and mourning.
A seven‑month‑old Palestinian boy, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, has been killed and his parents have been wounded after an Israeli soldier has fired at the family’s car in Tel Rumeida, south of Hebron. Rights group B'Tselem has released video that it says shows the vehicle was stopping, and Israel’s military has opened a Military Police investigation.
A gunfight in the West Bank village of Tell (Tal) has left four Palestinian men and two Israeli security personnel dead and dozens more wounded. Israeli forces have launched wide raids across northern West Bank towns, detained scores of Palestinians, sealed roads and fast-tracked the creation of new settler outposts while settler attacks on multiple villages have continued.