Palestinian youth footballer dies from wounds sustained after Israeli forces shoot him during settler raid
A Palestinian national youth football player has died from wounds sustained after Israeli forces shot him during a settler raid on his village in the occupied West Bank.
Seventeen-year-old Fadi Hamdallah al-Nassan, a player for Al-Mughayyir Club and the Palestinian national youth team, died on Saturday, a week after he was shot in the thigh during a settler attack on the village of Al-Mughayyir on July 11.
According to the Palestine Football Association, Israeli forces opened fire as settlers attacked the village, critically wounding Nassan, whose leg was later amputated before he succumbed to his injuries.
“He loved football,” his father, Hamdallah al-Nassan, said, recalling that his son rushed to the scene after hearing women and girls screaming during the attack.
His mother described him as a talented student and athlete loved throughout the village, saying, “He was a good student, good in sports, and loved playing football. Everyone loved him. May God accept him as a martyr.”
Two other Palestinians were struck by rubber bullets fired by Israeli forces during the same attack, while a 10-year-old boy suffered a head injury after being hit by a stun grenade.
The killing adds to the growing number of Palestinian children killed in the occupied West Bank since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, which has killed 72,000 Palestinians and injured 173,00 others.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), at least 1,111 Palestinians, including at least 243 children, have been killed in the occupied West Bank, including East al-Quds, between October 2023 and July 13, 2026, with 65 of those deaths recorded since the beginning of 2026.
The same period has also witnessed a sharp increase in settler attacks on Palestinian communities and property, alongside continued Israeli settlement expansion across the occupied West Bank, including efforts to re-establish the Kadim and Ganim settlements in Jenin Governorate.
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