Young man martyred by settlers' bullets, body detained in Tubas

The Palestinian young man Alaa Sobeih, 28 years old, was martyred today, Thursday morning, after being shot by extremist settlers during violent confrontations witnessed in the Tubas governorate, northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed the news of the martyrdom, noting that the confrontations erupted in an area near the village of Tayasir, located east of the governorate, where citizens confronted attempts of settlement expansion in the area.

Local sources reported that the confrontations began after groups of extremist settlers, under heavy protection from Israeli occupation forces, started establishing a new settlement outpost in the lands located between the villages of Tayasir and Al-Aqaba. This provocative move led to the outbreak of field clashes during which residents tried to defend their lands threatened with confiscation, which prompted the settlers to use live ammunition directly against the citizens.

Following the incident, the Israeli occupation army detained the body of the martyr Alaa Sobeih, preventing medical teams and residents from reaching him or transferring him for burial. This step comes within the systematic policy of the occupation to detain the bodies of Palestinian martyrs, which increases the state of tension and popular anger in all cities of the West Bank, which faces continuous escalation in settler attacks.

Concurrently, large forces of the occupation army carried out a wide-ranging military operation in the town of Tubas, where military vehicles and bulldozers stormed the town's neighborhoods under heavy gunfire. The invading forces raided a number of citizens' homes and tampered with their contents after thoroughly searching them, amid a military siege imposed on the area to ensure the security of the new settlement outpost that the settlers began to establish.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the martyrdom of the young man Alaa Sobeih (28 years old) by settlers' bullets during confrontations in Tubas governorate.