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Relatives bids farewell to Palestinian Awda Awawdeh during his funeral a day after he was killed by Israeli settlers, in the West Bank town of Deir Dibwan, April 23, 2026
A SENIOR Israeli official issued stark warnings about settler violence in the West Bank in a rare condemnation of the illegal attacks.
Major-General Avi Bluth, commander of Israeli forces in the West Bank, warned in a closed forum that rising settler attacks could spark a Palestinian uprising, calling settler actions “a disgrace to the Jewish people,” Israeli media reported today.
Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo, the son of Holocaust survivors, toured Palestinian villages hit by settler attacks and said what he witnessed reminded him of anti-Jewish violence in the last century.
“What I saw today made me feel ashamed to be Jewish,” he told Israel’s Channel 13.
Meanwhile, settler attacks continued. On April 29, Israeli forces shot dead 16-year-old Ibrahim Abd al-Khayat in Hebron and on May 3, Nayef Samaro was killed in Nablus.
Settlers also set up new illegal outposts, attacking Palestinians in several locations, wounding at least six people, and Israeli forces demolished a house of 25 people.
On Friday, a drunk reservist from a nearby outpost opened fire on Palestinian homes in the Arroub refugee camp near Hebron with his military-issued weapon.
In occupied East Jerusalem, videos showed Israeli soldiers chasing and dragging a Palestinian child with disabilities during a raid on the Shu’fat camp.
