"Israeli settlers have shot dead five civilians during invasions of Palestinian olive groves, villages and grazing land, in the brief period since Israel and the US launched a new war on Iran at the end of February. A sixth person died on Saturday after inhaling military-grade tear gas used by the Israeli army."
"Under the cover of war, the cooperation between the military and Israeli settler militias is deepening the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, Israel-based rights group B'tselem said this week. Settlers deliberately graze livestock in Palestinians' cultivated fields, destroy crops and stored food, steal livestock, and vandalise solar panels and water tanks."
"The most recent killings came on Saturday night after Palestinians from Abu Falah tried to stop a group of masked Israelis vandalising olive trees outside the town. Dozens of armed settlers later descended on the town, relatives and neighbours of the dead told the Guardian, and killed Thaer Faruq Hamayel, 30, and Fara Jawdat Hamayel, 57."
Three Palestinians were killed in Abu Falah village near Ramallah on Saturday night, marking the third deadly attack in a week of intensifying Israeli violence across the occupied West Bank. Since late February, Israeli settlers have shot five civilians during invasions of Palestinian olive groves, villages, and grazing land, with a sixth person dying from military-grade tear gas exposure. The escalating regional conflict has diverted international attention from Palestine while Israeli authorities imposed new Gaza blockades and movement restrictions. Israeli settler militias, operating with military cooperation, systematically destroy Palestinian crops, livestock, water infrastructure, and land through grazing, vandalism, and bulldozing. The Saturday killings occurred when Palestinians attempted to stop masked Israelis vandalizing olive trees, resulting in two men shot in the head and another dying from tear gas inhalation.
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