Assassination of Muhammad and Fahim Taha Muammar by settlers in Qaryut

On March 2, 2026, around 12:00, a settler entered an olive grove and began work to open an unauthorized access road on privately owned Palestinian land.

Residents went down to drive him away, reportedly by throwing stones, according to a security source. Live fire was then opened toward the Palestinians.

Video documentation shows a settler carrying a long firearm aiming his weapon toward a Palestinian residential home, accompanied by several young settlers; the footage does not indicate that their lives were under threat. Evidence collected by police at the scene later indicated that the shooter was not a civilian but a regional defense soldier.

Three otherswere wounded by the gunfire, including a third brother.

It should be noted that West Bank villages are currently under full closure since March 1 (Israeli-US war on Iran), and ambulance passage through checkpoints requires prior coordination.

According to reports, Israeli army forces who arrived after the shooting used crowd-control measures against Palestinians and began making arrests. Eyewitnesses reported the military arrested more than 20 Palestinians in the village. Because of the closure Israel has imposed on the West Bank, ambulances were unable to reach and evacuate the wounded for over an hour.

The detainees were released only later, once details of the incident became clear.

After the deaths of the two brothers who had attempted to defend the grove were confirmed, heavy engineering machinery returned to the site. The excavator was later confiscated by Israeli army forces.

According to the Red Crescent, five people were shot:

Two Palestinian brothers, Mohammed Taha Maamar (52), who was shot in the head, and Fahim Taha Maamar (48), who was shot in the pelvis, were killed by Israeli settler gunfire when in their house. Resuscitation efforts were carried out, but in vain.

a 30-year-old man was shot in the shoulder,

a 32-year-old man was shot in the thigh,

a 15-year-old boy was shot in the shoulder.

The deaths of two of the wounded men, who were brothers, were confirmed shortly afterward.

Names of the martyrs:

Mohammad Taha Mo’amar, 52

Faheem Taha Mo’amar, 48