West Bank: Search continues to find missing Israeli teenager and dozens of wounded Palestinians

The search continues this Saturday for a young Israeli shepherd who disappeared in the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, settler attacks on Palestinian villages have left one person dead and dozens wounded, official sources on both sides said.

The attacks on villages around Ramallah come amid rising violence in the Palestinian territory since the war between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement broke out in the Gaza Strip on October 7.

Left the farm on Friday morning

The Israeli army told AFP it still had no news of 14-year-old Benjamin Achimeir, who family members said left Malachi Hashalom Farms on Friday morning to tend his sheep and has shown no sign since. life.

The army deployed significant resources to comb the surrounding area and set up roadblocks. Hundreds of civilians, including many settlers, joined the army and police.

The violence erupted on Friday afternoon when armed settlers attacked the Palestinian village of al-Mughayir, about 500 meters from the farms, firing live ammunition and burning dozens of houses and vehicles, with residents responding by shooting and pelting them with stones, AFP correspondents said.

Clashes in al-Mughayyir have killed at least one Palestinian and injured 25, according to the latest report from the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health.

Five Palestinians were injured

The Palestinian news agency Wafa also reported that five Palestinians were injured in the village of Abu Falah near Ramallah in a settler attack.

Since the start of the Gaza war, violence has intensified in the West Bank, territory occupied by Israel since 1967. According to the Palestinian Authority, which exercises partial administrative control over the West Bank.

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese called on Friday for “the UN to authorize the deployment of a protective presence” in the territories. “The Israeli army has clearly demonstrated that it is unwilling or unable to carry out this mission,” she said.