At least three Palestinians were killed in attacks across the occupied West Bank on 2026-03-08, according to reporting from Al Jazeera that relied on the Palestinian news agency Wafa and Palestinian health officials.
The most serious attack took place in the village of Khirbet Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, where settlers shot dead two men during an overnight assault, Wafa reported. The victims were identified as Fare Jawdat Hamayel, 57, and Thaer Farouq Hamayel, 24. Both were said to have been shot in the head.
A third resident, Muhammad Hassan Murrah, 55, later died from the fumes of a tear gas canister fired by Israeli soldiers who accompanied settlers while dispersing residents who had tried to confront the attackers. That detail is central to the report because it suggests the violence involved both settlers and state forces during the same episode.
The Israeli military said its forces had been dispatched to the area after a report that Palestinians were attacked by Israeli civilians near homes. According to the AFP summary quoted by Al Jazeera, the military later said two Palestinians were killed as a result of gunfire and that another had died from suffocation. It said it was looking into the incidents.
Palestinian Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh condemned what he called a brutal attack on innocent citizens and said three people had been killed and seven others injured. His statement captures the scale of the immediate impact on the local community, although the supplied evidence does not verify the exact number injured beyond that claim.
The same report said there was a further killing later in the day in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, where Wafa reported that 27-year-old Amir Muhammad Shanaran was killed by settlers in another attack on the previous night. It also said at least eight Palestinians had been killed by settlers in the West Bank since the US-Israeli assault on Iran began a week earlier.
Because the supplied evidence comes through a single excerpt, the article avoids adopting every broader characterization in the source. What can be stated confidently is that multiple Palestinians were killed, the incidents involved settlers and in at least one case Israeli soldiers, and the military said it was investigating.
The killings add to a long-running pattern of deadly violence in the occupied West Bank, where settler attacks, military raids and Palestinian resistance attacks have repeatedly overlapped. In this case, the immediate facts are stark enough without adding interpretation: two men were shot dead in Khirbet Abu Falah, a third died from tear gas exposure during the same confrontation, and another Palestinian was later reported killed in a separate attack in Masafer Yatta.
