Palestinian boy killed in West Bank as Israeli fire wounds two in Gaza
Palestinian officials reported the death of a 14-year-old during an Israeli operation near Nablus, while sources in southern Gaza reported injuries to a fisherman and a boy.
By Larissa Bell ·
A 14-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli forces during an operation in Burqa, a village northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said on Tuesday, November 10. The Palestinian Ministry of Health named him as Moataz Iyad and said Israeli authorities were holding his body. Two other teenagers were wounded during the operation.
According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, a 17-year-old suffered gunshot wounds to his abdomen and pelvis, and a 19-year-old was shot in the hand. Wafa said soldiers detained Iyad's father, blocked an ambulance from reaching the wounded and temporarily detained three volunteer paramedics with the Palestine Red Crescent Society. The Israeli military acknowledged that soldiers fired in the area, saying they acted to neutralise a threat and confirmed several hits.
The death occurred against a backdrop of settler violence and Israeli military operations that have killed and injured Palestinians and displaced communities across the West Bank. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, known as Ocha, documented more than 2,060 settler attacks causing Palestinian casualties or property damage in about 300 communities from the start of 2026 through October 12.
During the shorter period from September 29 to October 12, Ocha recorded 244 such attacks in 113 communities, averaging 17 each day. Israeli forces or settlers killed five Palestinians and injured 246 during that period, with 22 children among the casualties, the agency said. Settler attacks accounted for three of the deaths.
The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, Acled, reported in September that settler-related violence in 2026 had already surpassed every year since its West Bank monitoring began in 2016. It recorded 203 incidents involving settlers firing weapons between January 1 and September 11, compared with 185 throughout 2025. Separately, Unicef said in October that at least 1,216 Palestinians, including 263 children, had been killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, between October 7, 2023, and September 9, 2026.
In Gaza, reports of further Israeli attacks emerged despite the ceasefire that began in October 2025. Medical and local sources told Anadolu Agency that Israeli fire wounded two Palestinians in the south on Tuesday: a fisherman off Khan Younis and a boy near tents housing displaced people in Batn al-Samin.
Wafa reported that Israeli naval vessels fired at fishing boats off Khan Younis, injuring a fisherman and damaging two vessels. Anadolu, citing local sources, said two boats were set ablaze. Witnesses also described artillery fire and heavy gunfire south and east of Khan Younis.
Local sources reported an incursion by Israeli military vehicles southeast of the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. The reports said Israeli forces demolished houses and other civilian structures near the incursion area.
Gaza's health ministry said on Monday that Israeli attacks since the ceasefire began on October 10, 2025, had killed 1,613 Palestinians and injured 5,833. The ministry put the overall toll from Israel's war on Gaza since October 2023 at more than 74,000 dead and more than 175,000 wounded.
