According to the mayor of the village of Sawiya, Bilal Abou Salah was killed while picking olives not far from the security fence of an Israeli settlement.
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A Palestinian was killed on Saturday 28 by an Israeli settler in the Nablus region in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health announced. Bilal Abou Salah, 40 years old, was “killed by a bullet in the chest from a settler” in the village of Sawiya near Nablus, the ministry said in a statement.
The mayor of Sawiya, Mahmoud Hassan, told AFP that Bilal Abou Salah was killed while picking olives with other members of his family on their land located not far from the colony’s security fence. Israeli from Rechelim. “They were attacked by four settlers and one of them, armed with an M16 rifle, opened fire on them without warning. Abu Salah was hit in the chest and he was martyred in front of his family and their children”, he added. Questioned by AFP, the Israeli army did not react immediately.
More than 100 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank during Israeli army operations since the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip between Hamas and Israel on October 7. The situation in the West Bank, occupied since 1967 by Israel, was already tense before this war with regular raids carried out by Israeli forces and an increase in attacks by Israeli settlers against the Palestinian population.