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Israeli military kills two near occupied West Bank settlement

The army further claimed that firefighting crews extinguished a blaze near the illegal settlement during the incident.

No statements have been issued by the Palestinian side regarding the incident.

Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967.

More than 500,000 illegal Israeli settlers live in the territory, excluding occupied east Jerusalem, among some three million Palestinians.

The United Nations recently warned that illegal settler violence in the occupied West Bank has reached record levels, with an average of six attacks daily causing casualties or damage.

An Israeli escalation in the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, since October 2023 has resulted in the killing of 1,169 Palestinians and injury to 12,666, in addition to the arrest of 23,000 people and the displacement of 33,000, according to Palestinian figures.