Reports: 13-year-old Palestinian girl shot dead by Israeli forces after settlers storm West Bank village

Palestinian media reports that a 13-year-old girl died of her wounds after being shot by Israeli forces near Nablus in the West Bank amid a clash between extremist settlers and local villagers.

She was evacuated in serious condition from the village of Qaryut to a hospital in Nablus, according to the PA official news agency Wafa, where doctors pronounced her death.

According to the report, Bana Amjad Bakr was shot in her room at her home in Qaryut.

The Yesh Din rights group says the incident began when dozens of settlers, allegedly guarded by Israeli soldiers, stormed the West Bank village and lit fires in the area.

The shots that killed Bakr were fired during clashes between Palestinian villagers and settlers that ensued.

בהמשך לדיווחים על אירוע בכפר קריות, בנפת שכם, שבו נהרגה הילדה הפלסטינית באנא אמג'ד בכר (13): תושבי קריות דיווחו לתחקירני יש דין שהאירוע החל כאשר עשרות מתנחלים מלווים בחיילים הגיעו לאדמות קריות והציתו בהן אש. בעקבות זאת פרצו עימותים שזלגו לפאתי הכפר ובמהלכם נורתה אש חיה. pic.twitter.com/K9M1f2aSL5

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According to the PA health ministry, more than 670 West Bank Palestinians have been killed since war erupted in Gaza after Hamas’s October 7 massacre. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.

Since October 7, troops have arrested some 5,000 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,000 affiliated with Hamas.

During the same period, 29 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.