17-Year-Old Palestinian Footballer Killed After Israeli Settlement Attack<|/TITLE>
<p class="article__subhead"><em>A week after being shot in his West Bank village, Fadi al‑Nassan’s death coincides with heightened settler violence</em></p>
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<p>Published 18 July 2026</p>
<p>A 17‑year‑old Palestinian footballer who was a member of his nation’s youth national team died from a gunshot wound sustained during an Israeli settler attack on his West Bank village, officials and family members reported.</p>
<p>Fadi Hamdallah al‑Nassan, aged 17, was shot on July 11 and died from his injuries on Saturday.</p>
<p>His death has renewed focus on the growing violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers and soldiers against Palestinian communities throughout the West Bank, a territory Israel has occupied since 1967 and where settlement construction has expanded rapidly despite being illegal under international law.</p>
<p>Human rights organizations and the United Nations have characterized Israel’s West Bank activities as a system of apartheid.</p>
<p>Al‑Nassan was a player for Al‑Mughayyir Club and also a member of the Palestinian national youth team.</p>
<p>Dozens of mourners clad in black transported his body from the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah to his hometown of al‑Mughayyir for burial on Saturday.</p>
<p>The Palestine Football Association (PFA) reported that Israeli forces shot al‑Nassan in the thigh during the settler attack; his leg was later amputated, and he died from his injuries.</p>
<p>According to the association’s statement on X, the number of Palestinian sports martyrs since October 7 2023 has risen to 1,013, of which 568 are footballers.</p>
<p>His father, Hamdallah al‑Nassan, said his son had rushed to the scene after hearing women and girls screaming during the assault.</p>
<p>“He went to the site of the attack and was killed,” his father said.</p>
<p>“He was an excellent student, talented in sports, and loved football. Everyone adored him,” his mother, Hanan al‑Nassan, said.</p>
<h3>Violence across the West Bank</h3>
<p>On Saturday, Israeli settlers and security forces carried out two separate attacks in the occupied West Bank, setting fire to olive groves near Ramallah and completely destroying a family home near Nablus, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.</p>
<p>The incidents occurred on the same day that Israeli forces raided homes in towns near Jenin, illustrating the near‑daily incursions and settler violence Palestinian communities endure.</p>
<p>In Deir Qaddis, west of Ramallah, Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition and tear gas at Palestinian farmers, igniting fires that spread through olive groves, WAFA reported.</p>
<p>Civil defence teams were blocked from reaching the scene, allowing the fire to spread further.</p>
<p>Near Nablus, a group of settlers set fire to a Palestinian family’s home in the town of Tal, completely destroying it, WAFA reported.</p>
<p>Israeli forces also raided homes in Yabad and Mithlon, near Jenin, which residents describe as an almost daily pattern of incursions and settler attacks.</p>
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