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Palestinian Family Says Israeli Settlers Forced Them to Exhume West Bank Gravesite 

HeadlineMay 12, 2026

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces fatally shot a 30-year-old Palestinian man Monday as they raided the Qalandiya refugee camp north of Jerusalem. He was shot in the head and later pronounced dead after Israeli forces barred ambulance crews from reaching his body. The killing came as Israeli forces stormed a vocational school opposite the camp and fired a barrage of tear gas, stun grenades and live ammunition. 

Separately, a Palestinian family in a village near Jenin says Israeli settlers forced them to exhume their 80-year-old relative and rebury his body in a different grave. Eighty-year-old Hussein Asasa died of natural causes last Friday. His son says he coordinated a burial with Israel’s military, yet settlers threatened to bulldoze his gravesite unless he agreed to move the body, claiming the cemetery was part of an Israeli settlement. Such settlements are illegal under international law. 

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