A Palestinian man with disabilities was shot multiple times and wounded by Israeli settlers on Saturday in the northern West Bank, amid heightened settler and military violence in the occupied territory.
The 29-year-old man, who has not yet been named, was reportedly shot at the entrance of Duma, a Palestinian village in the Nablus governorate, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA .
The owner of an adjacent Jewish Israeli settlement farm and another person fired "warning shots" at the Palestinian man after he allegedly approached their settlement, the Haaretz newspaper said, citing an Israeli defence official.
When the man failed to turn back following these shots, the two settlers opened fire at him, injuring him and prompting the Palestinian Red Crescent to rush him to hospital.
Head of the Duma council, Suleiman Dawabsha, confirmed the Palestinian man had a mental disability and that the incident happened when he entered the settlement outpost, but told Haaretz that his condition was stable.
Dawabsha said Israeli forces cuffed the man by his hands and feet and kept him in their custody for over an hour, preventing medical teams from the Palestinian Red Crescent from reaching the location of the incident.
The wounded man was finally allowed to be taken to the hospital. Medical officials said he was in a moderate-to-severe condition after being shot in his abdomen, his left foot, and his right leg.
Violent settler attacks against Palestinians have not ceased in the West Bank, despite international condemnation and Western sanctions . Israeli military raids have also continued.
In the southern West Bank, several Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation on Friday after Israeli forces raided the Dheisheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem.
According to Palestinian security sources, Israeli troops deployed at the camp's entrance and along the Jerusalem-Hebron road, firing tear gas and stun grenades at residents, causing multiple cases of suffocation.
Israeli forces also closed the southern entrance to the town of Khader at the Nashash junction, the main road linking the Bethlehem and Hebron governorates.
Elsewhere, Israeli forces carried out raids and arrest operations across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, detaining several Palestinians, including two brothers, both minors, from the town of Zababdeh, south of Jenin, and a young man from Qaddura refugee camp in Ramallah.
In Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, an armed Israeli settler stopped a Palestinian vehicle near the entrance to the Shaab al-Butm area before Israeli forces arrived and confiscated the vehicle's keys, according to local sources.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers attacked a home in the Arab al-Kaabneh community, east of the Christian village of Taibeh in the Ramallah and Bireh governorate.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right cabinet, particularly settler ministers such as Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, have long called for the full annexation of the West Bank. Their fiery rhetoric has incited further violence against the Palestinians.
Illegal Jewish-only settlements continue to be built and expanded , as Palestinians are evicted from their homes, detained, or killed. Many Palestinians want to see the West Bank part of a future sovereign state of theirs, along with occupied East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
Since the start of the war on Gaza in October 2023, there has been a sharp uptick in Israeli settler violence and military raids. Recent data published by Oxfam revealed that 1,244 Palestinians, including 268 children, were killed in the West Bank between 2023 and the end of 2025, making it one of the deadliest periods in decades.