Palestinians bury four killed in West Bank clash with settlers under IDF restrictions

Palestinians in the West Bank village of Tell bury four men killed during a clash with Israeli settlers in the village yesterday, local officials say.

“Families of the four martyrs held a common funeral early this morning, around 1 a.m., but the army restricted who could attend and only about 30 people were able to be there,” Walid Zidan, head of the Tell village council, tells AFP.

Settler violence in the West Bank has surged since the Gaza war began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.

Yesterday, about 20 Israelis from a nearby settlement entered the village and clashed with residents of Tell defending their property, Zidan tells AFP.

A Palestinian villager seized a settler’s weapon and opened fire, leading an emergency response team from a nearby settlement to rush to the scene and more gunfire that left four Palestinians and two Israelis, a soldier and a member of the security squad, dead, the IDF said.

Israeli forces closed gates and checkpoints throughout the West Bank, severely obstructing movement, AFP journalists reported.

جانب من تشييع الشهداء الشيخ فاروق وعمران وجواد وإبراهيم رمضان في قرية تل جنوب غرب نابلس، بعد منتصف الليلة pic.twitter.com/YpeNvNSOS8

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By the time of the funeral, movement was still restricted, and Zidan tells AFP that the military was still present in the village this morning, having detained 51 residents for questioning, releasing just six.

Ghassan Daghlas, the governor of the Nablus region, which includes Tell, attended the funeral.

“Daghlas participated in the funeral procession of the martyrs from the village of Tell, amid a large public turnout of residents from the village and across Nablus Governorate,” his office says in a statement.

In the statement posted on Facebook, a photo of the funeral shows the four deceased Palestinians’ bodies still on stretchers and wrapped in Palestinian flags.

#صورة| أهالي تل يؤدون صلاة الجنازة على شهداء القرية داخل مستشفى رفيديا. pic.twitter.com/hJuDHHyoxs

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