11 July, 2025: – Two young Palestinian men were killed on Friday evening after armed Israeli settlers launched a violent attack on residents of the village of Sinjil and nearby areas north of Ramallah, in a continued escalation of settler violence in the occupied West Bank.
Local sources reported that dozens of settlers armed with automatic rifles attacked residents and international activists as they attempted to reach Khirbet al-Tell in Jabal al-Batin to dismantle a newly established settlement outpost. The assault left ten Palestinians injured with gunshot wounds and fractures from the villages of Sinjil, al-Mazra’a al-Sharqiya, Abwein, and Jiljilya.
During the attack, 23-year-old Seif al-Din Kamel Abdul Karim Muslat from al-Mazra’a al-Sharqiya was killed after being severely beaten by settlers in the village of Sinjil.
Hours later, after a six-hour search, the body of 23-year-old Mohammad Rizq Hussein al-Shalabi, also from al-Mazra’a al-Sharqiya, was found. He had been shot in the chest with a live round that exited through his back and was left to bleed for hours before residents and medics were able to locate him.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, medical reports confirmed that al-Shalabi died from a fatal gunshot wound and that he had been denied access to medical care during the settler assault.
With the killing of Muslat and al-Shalabi, the number of Palestinians killed by settlers since the beginning of the year has risen to six, amid a worrying increase in settler-led violence across the West Bank, often carried out under the protection of Israeli forces.