On Augustus 13, Israeli settlers shot and killed a Palestinian resident of the village of Duma in the Nablus governorate.

According to testimonies coming from the town, settlers chased a boy, who managed to evade them, reached home and told his family. Several residents went out and got closer to the settlers, who fired at them, knowing full well that they would not be arrested or questioned.

This year, an illegal outpost has been established near the entrance to Duma. According to the Kerem Navot organization, recently, a road about 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles) long has been carved out from the outpost toward the northeast. The group estimates that the road is intended for the establishment of another illegal outpost.

According to Haaretz, clashes broke out between Palestinians and settlers who arrived in the village of Duma to prepare the land ahead of the establishment of this illegal outpost. An off-duty IDF soldier fatally shot a 35-year-old Palestinian.The soldier who fired the shots was providing security for the construction, though not as part of an official military mission.. Two Israelis, including an off-duty soldier who shot the Palestinian man, were wounded

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its crews treated a critically wounded man following the attack. According to the Ministry of Health, this 35-year-old resident, Thameen Khalil Reda Dawabsheh, was succumbed to his wounds

Furthermore, the head of the Duma Village Council, Suleiman Dawabsheh, confirmed that Israeli settlers targeted local residents and opened fire at them in the southern part of the village, amid land-leveling activities that have been taking place in the area for days.

The IDF spin:

"IDF says dozens of assailants threw rocks at an off-duty soldier and a civilian, prompting the soldier to fire warning shots; Palestinian attackers then tried to seize his weapon; The soldier initially fired warning shots into the air, the military said, but after the rock-throwing continued, he fired “to remove the threat,” hitting one of the assailants. The military added that the attackers then attempted to seize the soldier’s weapon. Additional troops were dispatched to the scene, and the incident ended shortly afterward. Both the soldier and the civilian sustained light injuries from the rock-throwing and received medical treatment on site."

According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission:

10 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers since the beginning of this year, bringing the death toll from colonist gunfire to 30 since October 7, 2023. This is possible because of the constant impunity for the perpetrators in West Bank. There is no law, no justice and no judge. The Jewish supremacists, the settlers, are rioting and murdering every week without any consequences.

Name of the martyr:

Thameen Khalil Reda Dawabsheh, 35.

Broader context by Kerem Navot:

In recent weeks, settlers have been working intensively around the village of Duma: Near the village’s only access road, a new outpost has been established, and from it a pirate road approximately 1.5 km long has been carved out, on the way to establishing yet another outpost. All of this is being done under the protection of the army, with the aim of emptying a village that is currently home to several thousand residents. Thread. On June 20, we posted here about what has been happening around the particularly isolated and violent outpost “Malachei Hashalom” (Angels of Peace). Among other things, we referred to an outpost that had been established shortly beforehand north of the access road to the village of Duma. We are returning to write about what is happening around Duma because, over the past two weeks, two significant developments have occurred on the path toward realizing the settlers’ plans for the area: to isolate the village and, given the opportunity, empty it of its thousands of residents, as they have done in more than 80 isolated shepherding communities. It is not enough for them to expel shepherding communities — the goal now is to expel an entire village housing thousands of Palestinians. Over the past two weeks, another outpost has been established northwest of the village, above the junction of Alon Road and Route 5 (the Trans‑Samaria Highway). Settlers refer to this junction as the “Three Councils Junction”, because it is the meeting point of three regional councils involved in countless illegal actions and widespread violence against the Palestinian population: Binyamin, Shomron, and the Jordan Valley. At the same time, settlers have carved a 1.5‑kilometer pirate road north of Duma. It is clear that the purpose of this road is to encircle the village from the north and, based on similar cases, to create an access route that will connect the existing outpost with a new outpost they intend to establish northeast of Duma. The role of this outpost will be to carry out the first stage of the plan: to expel the small community living east of the village, just a few hundred meters from the boundary of Area B. Thus, in broad daylight, settlers break through illegal roads, establish wildcat outposts, seize land, and conduct armed terror patrols inside Palestinian villages, while the army guards them and ensures that nothing happens to the members of these violent gangs. Never has the Israeli apartheid regime been so lawless and violent, and never has it been more urgent to intervene in order to restrain it. It appears that the only actor currently capable of doing so is the international community, through the imposition of meaningful sanctions and recognition of a Palestinian state and of Palestinians’ right to live safely and with dignity on their land. Without this, gangs operating under the protection of the most powerful army in the Middle East will continue to rampage and abuse Palestinian residents without restraint.