In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian boys in a village north of Hebron and then seized their bodies. Separately, three Palestinians, including a 14-year-old child, were injured after Israeli forces fired on them during a raid southeast of occupied East Jerusalem. This comes amid a record wave of violent attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians during this year’s olive harvest. On Tuesday, masked Israeli settlers stormed a dairy plant near the town of Beit Lid, setting fire to vehicles. And on Thursday, settlers set fire to the Hajja Hamida Mosque in the Palestinian village of Deir Istiya. This is local activist Nazmi Salman.

Nazmi Salman: “This attack comes within the framework of the declared war against the Palestinian people by settlers with the support of the occupation government. This attack violated the sanctity of places of worship and mosques. There were racist slogans written on the northern walls of the mosque.”