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Saturday, July 25Saturday, July 25Grieving family members on Saturday buried four Palestinian men killed during a clash with Israeli settlers a day earlier in the occupied West Bank. The confrontation, which also left two Israeli soldiers dead, has escalated tensions in the region.
The funeral for the four Palestinians was held early Saturday morning in the village of Tell, south of Nablus. Walid Zidan, head of the Tell village council, said that the Israeli army restricted the number of attendees to about 30 people. "Families of the four martyrs held a common funeral early this morning, around 1am (22:00 GMT), but the army restricted who could attend and only about 30 people were able to be there," Zidan told AFP.
The clash occurred on Friday when about 20 Israelis from a nearby settlement entered the village and clashed with Palestinian residents defending their property. According to the Israeli military, a Palestinian villager seized an Israeli's weapon and shot one settler dead, leading to more gunfire that left four Palestinians and a second Israeli dead.
In response to the shooting attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered a "wide-scale military operation" in Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces raided Nablus while settlers attacked nearby villages.
The violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has surged since the Gaza war began with Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. Ghassan Daghlas, the governor of the Nablus region, which includes Tell, participated in the funeral procession of the martyrs from the village of Tell, amid a large public turnout of residents from the village and across Nablus Governorate.
Turkey has strongly condemned the killing of four Palestinians, blaming "settler terrorists encouraged by the Netanyahu government." The Turkish Foreign Ministry urged the international community to hold perpetrators accountable.
The Palestinian Authority's presidency office condemned the violence by Israeli settlers on the occupied West Bank. The statement highlighted the killing of four Palestinians and subsequent attacks on civilians and their property in several villages.
Israeli forces closed gates and checkpoints throughout the West Bank, severely obstructing movement, AFP journalists reported. By the time of the funeral, movement was still restricted, and Zidan told AFP that the military was still present in the village Saturday morning, having detained 51 residents for questioning, and released just six.
The Israeli military announced it was preparing for an extensive operation in the West Bank following the deadly clash.
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