(13 Aug 2025)
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Duma, West Bank – 13 August 2025
1. Various of mourners carrying Hamas and Palestinian flags, marching at funeral
2. Various of funeral
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Salam Dawabsheh, witness:
“At the moment the confrontation began, and the young men approached to speak to the settlers, the settlers immediately started shouting, then opened fire, shooting directly at their bodies. One young man was martyred, and another was lightly injured by shrapnel."
4. Cutaway of mourners
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Suleiman Dawabsheh, Head of the Duma village Council:
"Settlers are armed and operate with the backing of the Israeli army and government – from figures like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir – with open permission to shoot at any Palestinian presence in the area.”
6. Various of mourners carrying body wrapped in Palestinian flags, marching, praying
7. Wide of Duma
STORYLINE:
Mourners mourned a Palestinian shot by An Israeli settler on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
"At the moment the confrontation began, and the young men approached to spoke to the settlers, the settlers immediately started shouting, then opened fire — shooting directly at their bodies," said Abdul Salam Dawabsheh from Duma village.
The Israeli military said dozens of Palestinians hurled rocks toward an off-duty soldier and another person carrying out “engineering works” near Duma, lightly wounding them. It said the soldier initially fired warning shots, then opened fire in self-defence.
Suleiman Dawabsheh, head of the Duma village Council, said: "Settlers are armed and operate with the backing of the Israeli army and government — from figures like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir — with open permission to shoot at any Palestinian presence in the area.”
The Health Ministry identified the deceased as Thamin Dawabshe, a distant relative of a family targeted in a 2015 firebombing in the village by a settler. That attack killed a toddler and his parents. The attacker was convicted and handed three life sentences.
The West Bank has seen a rise in settler violence as well as Palestinian attacks since the start of the war in Gaza, and the Israeli military has carried out major military operations there. Rights groups and Palestinians say the military often turns a blind eye to violent settlers or intervenes to protect them.
AP video by Imad Isseid and produced by Jalal Bwaitel
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