A Palestinian man inspects burned property in a mosque, following an attack that local Palestinians said was carried out by Israeli settlers in Deir Istiya village, near Salfit in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Nov. 13, 2025. (Credit: Ali Sawafta/Reuters)
Israeli settlers killed two brothers in an attack on the occupied West Bank village of Qaryut on Monday that also injured three people, the Ramallah-based Health Ministry and Palestinian Red Crescent said.
"Two citizens from Qaryut, south of Nablus, were killed by settler gunfire," the Ministry said in a statement, identifying the two as Mohammed and Faheem Muammar.
A source at the Ministry confirmed to AFP that the two men, shot in the head and pelvis respectively, were brothers.
The Palestinian Red Crescent, whose teams responded to the incident, reported at least three other people injured, all by gunfire.
One of the injured was a 15-year-old child shot in the shoulder.
Israel's military told AFP it was "looking into" the reports.
An AFP journalist at the nearby Rafidia Hospital in the Palestinian city of Nablus reported seeing the bodies of the two dead men, as well as five people brought in with injuries from the incident.
Violence in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has soared since the Hamas attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war in October 2023. It has continued despite the cease-fire.
Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 1,040 Palestinians, many of them civilians, in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, according to an AFP tally based on Palestinian Health Ministry figures.
At least 44 Israelis, including both soldiers and civilians, have been killed in Palestinian attacks or Israeli military operations, according to official Israeli figures.
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