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West Bank settler attack
About 50 settlers reportedly attacked the outskirts of Farkha, a village west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank.
News agencies and local sources said the attackers fired live rounds into the air while security forces were reportedly present.
Al Jazeera placed the Farkha/Salfit episode among multiple raids and settler attacks across the occupied West Bank.
On-the-ground descriptions emphasize live rounds fired by settlers and an apparent security-force presence during the incidents.
West Bank raid impacts
Local medical and emergency responders reported injuries tied to raids and settler incursions across the West Bank.
The Palestine Red Crescent said its teams took a young man shot in the foot to a hospital after clashes during an Israeli raid on al-Arroub camp north of Hebron.
Other locations such as Idhna and Sinjil reported minor wounds, property damage and looting linked to raids and settler activity.
The reporting aggregates these medical and property impacts as part of a wave of coordinated incidents across multiple towns and villages.
Reported casualties and damage
Al-Jazeera’s coverage places the Farkha/Salfit attack within a larger tally of West Bank human costs, citing Palestinian figures that since October 8, 2023, violence in the West Bank has left at least 1,105 Palestinians dead, about 11,000 wounded and more than 21,000 arrested.
The same report contrasts those figures with much higher Gaza tolls and accuses the campaign of widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure (about 90%), invoking a UN reconstruction estimate of roughly $70 billion.
Those aggregated figures come from the Palestinian agencies and local tallies Al-Jazeera cites (including WAFA), underlining the scale that local sources put on the situation.
Security forces and settler incidents
Reports highlight the role and presence of Israeli security forces during some incidents; Al Jazeera says the army 'reportedly secured the settlers' during the Farkha episode and notes separate raids that used live fire and stun grenades in other towns, with at least one Palestinian suffering minor wounds.
That phrasing — 'reportedly secured' — is presented as a reported claim rather than an attribution of motive or official policy, but the juxtaposition of armed settlers firing live rounds and security-force presence is a recurring theme in the accounts cited.
Source limitations and claims
Information across these reports is constrained to agency and local claims and does not include independent verification of every detail.
The Al-Jazeera article explicitly attributes figures and event descriptions to Palestinian agencies, the Palestine Red Crescent and Anadolu Agency, and lists WAFA among its sources.
That means the precise number of wounded in the Salfit/Farkha area, the sequence of actions between settlers and security forces, and questions of intent or protection remain drawn from reported accounts and local tallies rather than a single independent verification.
Readers should understand the reporting as sourced to those agencies and local sources.
The accounts are consistent in describing violence, live rounds fired, and at least some injuries, but exact totals and legal or political conclusions are left to further verification.