VIDEO. Hamas-Israel war: Palestinian killed by Israeli settler in West Bank

2023-10-29 03:03:31

The war raging in the Gaza Strip is also causing casualties in the West Bank. Bilal Abou Salah is one of them. At the age of 40, he was shot dead by an Israeli settler on October 28, 2023. According to the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health, the Palestinian was “picking olives” with his family during the tragedy.

“They were attacked by four settlers and one of them, armed with an M16 rifle, opened fire on them without warning. Abou Salah was hit in the chest and he fell as a martyr in front of his family and his children,” detailed the mayor of the small town of Sawiya, Mahmoud Hassan.

Since the Hamas attack on October 7, Palestinians have faced a wave of increased violence in the occupied West Bank. “After October 7, the situation became dangerous and frightening for us,” says Abu Bachar, a resident of Wadi al-Sik. Some Palestinians have been forced into exile after being driven from their villages. “They come to our houses and break everything inside and outside, even the schools have been attacked, they are settlers in soldiers’ clothes. They are using this war as a pretext to expel us from our homes and empty these lands for themselves,” said Jaber Dababsi, a farmer and resident of Khallet al-Dabaa. The White House has spoken out on the situation. “This must stop now,” Joe Biden said on October 25, 2023.