The occupied West Bank witnessed another wave of extremist Israeli settler attacks on Tuesday, with vehicles burned and at least one child killed.
Settler gangs stormed the Palestinian village of Mikhmas and set fire to two vehicles, Hassan Mleihat of Al-Baidar Human Rights Organisation told The New Arab's sister site, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
Settlers carried out raids across the occupied Palestinian territory, which has seen increasing settler and military violence in the past two years, particularly in recent months.
Assaults were reported in the Masoud area near the village of Kisar, where settlers attacked the home of Nassar Muhammad Rashaida.
In the Abu Najah Bedouin community near the village of Al-Mughayyir, settlers drove herds of livestock into residential areas, disrupting residents who had previously been forcibly displaced from the Ain Samia area a few months ago.
Settlers also stormed agricultural lands in the Ras al-Qadi area of the city of Halhul in the southern West Bank, damaging private property under the protection of Israeli forces, with soldiers also entering the town.
Later Tuesday evening, settlers set fire to Palestinian property and trucks during an attack on an industrial area and Bedouin community located between the towns of Deir Sharaf and Beit Lid.
In a rare incident, the Israeli army reportedly detained several settlers after the attack.
"Soldiers were dispatched to the area of the Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf villages following a report of dozens of masked Israeli civilians who attacked Palestinians and set fire to property in the area," the military said in a statement.
Separately, the deputy mayor of Beita, Mohammad Hamayel, told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that Aysam Jihad Nasser Maalla, 13, died on Tuesday after complications resulting from tear gas inhalation.
He had been injured around a month ago when Israeli military forces fired tear gas toward him and his family as they were harvesting olives on their land in the Jabal Qamas area of Beita, just south of Nablus.
Maalla, an eighth-grade student at Beita Boys' Primary School, had been in a coma for around 31 days and was declared clinically brain-dead while in intensive care before his death was officially announced.
The Israeli army continued its siege on the town of Ya'bad for a fourth day, turning several homes into military outposts.
A blockade on the Ya'bad's entrances has severely restricted the movement of residents, disrupted daily life, and forced schools to shift to remote learning, the sources told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
Israeli security data said that there were at least 704 attacks from settlers by October, compared to 675 in the entirety of 2024.
Palestinian rights groups have repeatedly warned that there has been a sharp uptick in Israeli settler attacks as well as army detentions and raids in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023.
Around 986 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied territory since then.