Two Palestinian teens killed in West Bank as settler violence escalates

In the occupied West Bank village of al-Mughayyir, two Palestinian teenagers — Omar al-Naasan and Khalil Abu Alia — were shot and killed when Israeli settlers and soldiers entered the area, adding two young lives to a toll the United Nations now counts at more than eighty Palestinians killed in the territory since the year began. The Israeli military describes the shooting as a response to a violent riot; a father describes it as the fulfillment of a fear he had already learned to carry. Between those two accounts lies a landscape of near-daily settler attacks that have transformed ordinary vi