Two Palestinian Teenagers Killed by Israeli Fire During Settler-Army Raid on Al-Mughayyir

On Wednesday, September 2, 2026, two Palestinian teenagers — 19-year-old Omar al-Naasan and 16-year-old Khalil Shehadeh — were shot and killed in the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, during a raid by Israeli settlers accompanied by army troops, according to the Palestinian health ministry and local officials. The Israeli military said its forces entered the village to provide security for police officers and an Israeli civilian seeking to retrieve livestock, and that troops fired on 'key instigators' of a 'violent disturbance' in which people threw stones, adding the incident was under investigation. Local reports said settlers had grazed livestock near the village and stolen sheep before Israeli forces entered. The killings came three days after settlers attacked the same village on August 30, when accompanying IDF troops wounded four young men with live fire, and amid an intensified pattern of settler violence following the August siege of nearby Qusra.