Benjamin Achimeir, 14, a young Israeli shepherd, disappeared on Friday. The animals had returned to his farm in Malachei HaShalom without him.
A vast operation was immediately launched by the army and hundreds of civilians, including many settlers. The attacks targeted Palestinian towns north of Ramallah then spread to Hebron (south) and Nablus (center) These clashes come against a backdrop of increased confrontation in the West Bank since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which began on October 7. In the West West Bank, at least 462 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers since the beginning of the Gaza war, according to the Palestinian Authority. The UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, urged Friday “the UN to authorize the deployment of a protective presence” in the territories. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israeli security forces are engaged “in the intensive pursuit of the despicable assassins and all those who collaborated with them”