Reports: West Bank settlers gather, arson reported, amid calls for revenge over suspected fatal attack on teen

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22 March 2026, 5:08 pm

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Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent

Footage circulating on social media shows extremist settlers beginning to gather near the village of Umm Safa near Ramallah, one day after an 18-year-old Israeli was killed in the West Bank in what is being investigated as a terror attack.

In addition, reports said settlers set fire to several vehicles at a scrapyard in the village of Deir Sharaf. No injuries have been reported.

Earlier, messages circulated in groups and pages identified with extremist settlers calling to avenge the death of the teen, Yehuda Sherman, at 5 p.m. today. Sherman was killed yesterday in a collision between his vehicle and one driven by a Palestinian in the Jenin area. Police and the military said they were examining the possibility that it was a deliberate attack.