West Bank sees surge of injuries as Israeli forces and settlers clash with Palestinians

Palestinian health officials and local outlets say Israeli military operations and settler violence have injured at least 19 Palestinians in the West Bank. Troops fired on three individuals near the separation barrier in ar-Ram, and the Palestine Red Crescent Society treated more than a dozen people, including four children, for tear-gas exposure in Tubas. Armed settlers beat an elderly resident in Masafer Yatta, prompting a subsequent army raid that damaged property and seized phones.

Additional beatings left two young men from Arrabeh and a 15-year-old from Tammun in hospital, while another child was hurt in a separate assault. UN data show over 1,330 settler attacks this year, the fastest rate recorded, and a UN commission has accused Israeli authorities of failing to prevent or even facilitating many of these incidents.