On September 7, overnight, a group of armed Israeli settlers entered in Hajja, east of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.entered/attacked the village.

Palestinian describes it as an armed settler attack, with settlers firing directly at residents, under Israeli army protection. Video from the attack captures settlers escalating the confrontation with Palestinian residents, including raising their weapon to take aim on unarmed Palestinians standing their ground.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said two Palestinians were shot, one in the head and another in the chest. The wounded were transferted at Darwish Nazzal Government Hospital.

18-year-old Palestinian Omar Muhammad Tubasi, a dentistry student at Najah University, was shot in the head and killed by armed Jewish settlers. According to Wafa, he later died at Darwish Nazzal Hospital in Qalqilya. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced his martyrdom, adding that Omar is a second-year student at the Faculty of Medicine at An-Najah University, and a memorizer of the Holy Qur’an.

Two other Palestinians were wounded by live fire: one in the chest, reportedly seriously, and a 17-year-old in the thigh.

According to Israeli media Ynet, reported by The Times of Israel, settlers would have flown a drone over the village, residents threw stones at it, and the settlers entered to retrieve it; clashes then occurred between residents, settlers and Israeli soldiers. According to that account, IDF soldiers fired at Palestinians throwing stones. The IDF had not yet commented at the time of publication.

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Just over a month ago, the violent settlement of Kedumim established an outpost—a so-called “farm”—called Sha’ar HaOz near the village of Hajjeh.