Israeli forces kill 5 Palestinians; calls to raze occupied West Bank towns after settler killed
Israel’s military said it killed five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. The killing of the five followed after an Israeli settler was killed in a shooting in the West Bank.
The military said in a statement that it surrounded a house and killed five “terrorists” and arrested a sixth person following an exchange of gunfire and the use of shoulder-fired missiles by Israeli forces to destroy the house in the Palestinian town of Tammun.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad later issued a statement saying five of its members were killed while clashing with Israeli forces in Tammun.
The town is located some 35km (22 miles) from the area where a pregnant Israeli settler, Tzeela Gez, was killed on Wednesday night when shots were fired at the vehicle in which she was travelling. No link has been made between the killing of the five and the Israeli settler.
The Reuters news agency reports that pro-settler leaders, including an Israeli minister, called for Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank to be razed following the killing of the settler.
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said the rights of Israeli settlers outweigh the rights of Palestinians to move freely, calling for checkpoints to be permanently established throughout the occupied West Bank.
He also called for the death penalty for “terrorists”.
Palestinians inspect a house destroyed by the Israeli army during a raid that killed five Palestinian fighters in the occupied West Bank village of Tammun on Thursday
The Westbank is starting to look more like Gaza day after day.
Remember July 19 2024 the ICJ ruled that the occupation of the Westbank should end asap. https://www.icj-cij.org/node/204176 As well as instructed the UN and UNSC to take steps to end the occupation.
Settlers assault Palestinian woman protecting land in occupied West Bank
Footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows Israeli settlers assaulting a Palestinian woman who had reportedly been trying to stop the group from trespassing on her family’s land near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Israelis hold funeral for pregnant woman killed in occupied West Bank
Relatives and friends on Thursday mourn Tzeela Gez, an Israeli settler who was shot and killed near her home in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, while driving to the hospital with her husband to give birth
Israeli settlers burn vehicle in new attack near Nablus
As we reported earlier, there have been reports of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian-owned vehicles in the occupied West Bank town of Bruqin, west of Salfit, and the Ramin Plain area, east of Tulkarem.
The Quds News Network now reports that Israeli settler militias have attacked the Masoudiya water well, northwest of Nablus, and burned the guard’s vehicle.
مليشيات المستوطنين هاجمت بعد منتصف الليلة بئر المسعودية شمال غرب نابلس وأحرقت مركبة حارس البئر. pic.twitter.com/gfXqO3Jhug
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) May 16, 2025
Translation: Settler militias attacked the Masoudiya well, northwest of Nablus, after midnight, and burned the well guard’s vehicle.
