{"version":"1.9","identifier":"e5ee1e16-8e10-4b0f-b468-fae4c6d2383d","language":"en-US","title":"Israeli forces kill 14-year-old in Burqa as settlers attack harvesters and rabbis near Qusra","layout":{"columns":7,"width":1024,"margin":32,"gutter":20},"componentLayouts":{"text":{"columnStart":0,"columnSpan":7,"maximumContentWidth":720,"margin":{"top":12,"bottom":12}},"photo":{"columnStart":0,"columnSpan":7,"margin":{"top":20,"bottom":20}}},"componentTextStyles":{"default":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":18,"lineHeight":29,"textColor":"#171717"},"headline":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue-Bold","fontSize":36,"lineHeight":42,"conditional":[{"conditions":{"maxViewportWidth":480},"fontSize":28,"lineHeight":34}]},"intro":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":20,"lineHeight":28,"textColor":"#555555"},"caption":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":13,"lineHeight":19,"textColor":"#666666"},"byline":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":13,"lineHeight":20,"textColor":"#666666"},"body":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":18,"lineHeight":29,"paragraphSpacingAfter":14,"linkStyle":{"textColor":"#00704a"}}},"metadata":{"canonicalURL":"https://567politics.com/news/palestine-burqa-boy-14-killed-israeli-forces-qusra-settler-attack-rabbis-harvest-november-2026","datePublished":"2026-11-10T17:15:40.365887Z","dateModified":"2026-11-10T17:16:02.841077Z","authors":["567 Politics staff"],"excerpt":"The army says it fired at would-be stone-throwers; medics say they were blocked. A day later, settlers hurt activists and a photographer south of Nablus.","thumbnailURL":"https://pub-fac99da959e344fe99d810d309cef7df.r2.dev/photos/article/e5ee1e16-8e10-4b0f-b468-fae4c6d2383d/32b8023bcaf1c18dd51a379e2d69129c.jpg","keywords":["ps"],"generatorName":"Frog News","generatorVersion":"1.0"},"components":[{"role":"title","text":"Israeli forces kill 14-year-old in Burqa as settlers attack harvesters and rabbis near Qusra","textStyle":"headline","layout":"text"},{"role":"intro","text":"The army says it fired at would-be stone-throwers; medics say they were blocked. A day later, settlers hurt activists and a photographer south of Nablus.","textStyle":"intro","layout":"text"},{"role":"byline","text":"By 567 Politics staff · Published November 10, 2026","textStyle":"byline","layout":"text"},{"role":"photo","URL":"https://pub-fac99da959e344fe99d810d309cef7df.r2.dev/photos/article/e5ee1e16-8e10-4b0f-b468-fae4c6d2383d/32b8023bcaf1c18dd51a379e2d69129c.jpg","caption":"The village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, seen from the west in 2020 · יעקב (Wikimedia Commons user), CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)","accessibilityCaption":"The village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, seen from the west in 2020","layout":"photo"},{"role":"caption","text":"The village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, seen from the west in 2020 · יעקב (Wikimedia Commons user), CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)","textStyle":"caption","layout":"text"},{"role":"body","format":"markdown","text":"Israeli forces shot dead a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, on Monday evening, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. The Israeli military said its soldiers fired at people who intended to throw stones at Israeli vehicles. On Tuesday, south of Nablus, Israeli settlers attacked olive harvesters, Israeli rabbis and journalists near the village of Qusra, injuring several people, according to the activists, the village mayor and Palestinian medics.\n\nThe two incidents came as United Nations monitors reported the highest monthly number of settler attacks since they began counting in 2006. They also came as Israel's new Knesset was sworn in, with the parties forming the next government divided over almost every aspect of West Bank policy.\n\n## The killing in Burqa\n\nThe ministry identified the boy as Moataz Iyad Daghlas, 14. It said it was informed of his death by the Palestinian General Authority of Civil Affairs, and that Israeli forces were withholding his body, according to the Palestinian news agency [Wafa](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/176803).\n\nAccording to Wafa, Israeli forces entered the town earlier in the evening and opened live fire. A 17-year-old was shot in the abdomen and pelvis and a 19-year-old in the hand. Wafa said the forces prevented ambulance crews from reaching Daghlas before his death was announced, and detained his father, Iyad Daghlas, and a young man named Rayan Daghlas.\n\nThe Palestine Red Crescent Society said its teams treated two people with gunshot wounds, but that Israeli forces blocked their access to a third wounded person and detained three volunteer paramedics, the [BBC reported](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqpvgv318yyeo). Wafa said the paramedics were held briefly.\n\nThe Israeli military confirmed the shooting. It said soldiers identified \"several terrorists who intended to hurl stones\" in an area where stones had previously been thrown at Israeli vehicles, and fired toward them \"to remove the threat,\" according to the BBC. \"The forces responded with gunfire to neutralise the threat and several hits were confirmed,\" the military said in a statement quoted by [Al Jazeera](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/10/israeli-forces-kill-14-year-old-palestinian-boy-in-occupied-west-bank). The statement did not name the boy or say whether he had thrown stones.\n\nThe military has not published an account of why the ambulance was held back or why the medics were detained. The account of events in Burqa could not be independently verified.\n\n## The legal dispute over lethal force\n\nThe case falls into a long-running dispute over when Israeli soldiers may open fire. The BBC noted that the rules of engagement for Israeli forces were reportedly broadened after the Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7, 2023, giving soldiers more discretion to use lethal force against a perceived threat.\n\nIn June, the UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territory said it had verified the killing of 241 Palestinian children by Israeli security forces and settlers in the West Bank since then, the BBC reported. Most were teenage boys. In many cases, the office found, Israeli authorities cited stone-throwing as the justification. Its assessment was that none of the children killed during confrontations with Israeli forces had posed an imminent threat to life, which it said is the only legal justification for lethal force in the West Bank under international law.\n\nAccording to the UN, at least 98 Palestinians, including 22 children, have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the West Bank since the start of 2026, the BBC said. Al Jazeera, citing the UN, put the total since Oct. 7, 2023 at 1,143, including 250 children. Israelis have also been killed in the West Bank. On Oct. 23, two Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers in Hebron, according to the UN's humanitarian office.\n\n## The attack near Qusra\n\nOn Tuesday morning, a group from the Israeli organization Rabbis for Human Rights was helping Palestinian farmers pick olives near Qusra, south of Nablus. About 90 minutes into the harvest, the activists noticed settlers gathering on a nearby hill and called the police, the group said, according to [The Jerusalem Post](https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-914444).\n\nThe settlers, who the activists said carried clubs, came down the hill and began their attack once soldiers had arrived. Footage released by the group shows settlers throwing rocks at activists and at journalists recording the scene, the Post reported. The army fired tear gas at the attackers, but the activists said the settlers soon attacked again from another direction, forcing the group to leave.\n\nSix people were hurt, according to the organization: four of its activists, a journalist and a Palestinian resident. One person was taken to the hospital with a head injury. Israel Police said they \"received a report of a confrontation\" and had opened an investigation. Police said two people with light injuries had been taken to the hospital, but did not say who they were.\n\nQusra's mayor, Abdul Azim Wadi, told Wafa that settlers attacked olive harvesters and foreign activists on land between Qusra and Jalud, in an area classified as Area B under the Oslo Accords, where the Palestinian Authority runs civil affairs. [Wafa reported](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/176826) that Alaa Badarneh, a photographer for the European Pressphoto Agency, was bruised after being hit by stones, and that a foreign activist was also hurt. The Red Crescent treated Badarneh in the field for a hand injury, [Anadolu reported](https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/palestinian-journalist-foreign-activist-injured-in-israeli-occupier-attack-in-occupied-west-bank/4118891). Wadi told Anadolu that repeated attacks had made this year's harvest especially hard and that several vehicles were damaged.\n\nIt was not clear whether the two accounts describe one attack or two separate incidents in the same area on the same morning. No arrests had been reported by Tuesday afternoon.\n\n## A record month for settler attacks\n\nThe UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has tracked settler attacks that cause casualties or property damage since 2006. October 2026 set a record, with 457 such attacks recorded by Oct. 31, according to its [Nov. 5 situation report](https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-report-5-november-2026).\n\nIn the latest week covered, Oct. 27 to Nov. 2, OCHA recorded 64 attacks with casualties or damage across 48 communities, against a weekly average of 53 so far in 2026. Of those, 41 were linked to the olive harvest. Fifty-eight Palestinians were injured that week, 43 of them by settlers and 15 by Israeli forces.\n\n**Palestinians injured in the West Bank, Oct. 27 to Nov. 2, 2026**\n\nNumber of people injured in one week, by who caused the injury. Excludes two Israeli activists assaulted by settlers near Aqraba on Nov. 1.","textStyle":"body","layout":"text"},{"role":"htmltable","html":"<table><tr><th>Caused by</th><th>Palestinians injured</th></tr><tr><td>Israeli settlers</td><td>43</td></tr><tr><td>Israeli forces</td><td>15</td></tr></table>","layout":"text"},{"role":"body","format":"markdown","text":"Source: [UN OCHA situation report, Nov. 5, 2026](https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-report-5-november-2026)\n\nThe chart shows that in the harvest season most injuries are coming from settlers rather than soldiers. OCHA also reported that in the area between Al Masu'diya and Burqa, settlers reportedly assaulted a farmer harvesting in Area A and seized six bags of olives. Even where Israel had approved harvest access, OCHA said, farmers kept facing restrictions and attacks.\n\nEarlier 567 Politics reports covered [the record olive-harvest violence and Israeli arrests of activists](https://567politics.com/news/west-bank-olive-harvest-record-settler-attacks-ocha-israel-arrests-activists-november-2026) and [the Palestinian Authority's count of October incidents](https://567politics.com/news/palestine-west-bank-october-incidents-pa-commission-3133-ocha-olive-harvest-november-2026).\n\n## Elsewhere in the West Bank last week\n\nOCHA's latest report also describes a wider pattern of pressure on Palestinian communities. Between Oct. 23 and Nov. 2, an Israeli military operation in Hebron city followed a shooting attack by two Palestinians that killed two Israeli soldiers and injured four. The operation reportedly displaced about 3,000 Palestinians from two neighborhoods, Jildah and 'Ein Deir Bahah, though OCHA said the figures were still being verified. On Oct. 30, Israeli forces demolished, with explosives, the apartments of the families of the two attackers, who were killed in an exchange of fire. Three families of 15 people, including nine children, were displaced.\n\nIn the same week, Israeli authorities demolished or forced Palestinians to demolish 31 Palestinian-owned structures, displacing 71 people, OCHA said. Twenty-four were demolished for lack of Israeli building permits and seven on punitive grounds. In Khirbet Suruj near Jenin, seven families of 33 people left after Israeli authorities reportedly declared the area state land.\n\nHarvest access also remained tight. In Deir Ammar near Ramallah, OCHA said, access was limited to three days and to 15 farmers over 40, and an 82-year-old farmer was assaulted by settlers during the permitted period. In Kafr Malik, settlers accompanied by Israeli forces reportedly attacked farmers and injured a person providing protective presence. In Jamma'in and Qabalan, near Nablus, settlers assaulted farmers harvesting in Area B, including two men over 70. In Beit Iksa, near Jerusalem, settlers and Israeli forces reportedly forced farmers out of their groves despite prior coordination, and farmers said settlers had already picked the olives from about 30 trees. Eight of the week's 41 harvest-related attacks took place in Areas A and B, where the Palestinian Authority has civil control. On Nov. 1, settlers also assaulted two Israeli solidarity activists near Aqraba, south of Nablus, OCHA said. The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project has said 2026 is on track to be the most violent year for settler-related violence since it began monitoring the territory a decade ago, Al Jazeera reported.\n\n## The political backdrop\n\nSettlement policy is one of the sharpest divides in Israel's coalition talks. The outgoing government included Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who favor settlement expansion. In recent weeks, Israeli authorities issued a tender for 732 units in Gvaot and [seizure orders for new roads](https://567politics.com/news/palestine-israel-military-seizure-orders-ganim-kadim-ataret-roads-november-2026).\n\nAt the Knesset swearing-in on Tuesday, President Isaac Herzog said there was \"no place for violence ... not in the hilltops of Judea and Samaria,\" using the biblical name for the West Bank, according to [Haaretz's live coverage](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-politics/2026-11-10/ty-article-live/israels-knesset-live-updates/000001a1-c314-d29f-afb5-d3751e590000). He said racism and violence \"must be eradicated with all our strength.\"\n\nThe positions of Palestinian parties are compared on the [political spectrum page for Palestine](https://567politics.com/political-spectrum?country=palestine).","textStyle":"body","layout":"text"}]}