Palestinian youth soccer player dies a week after Israeli attack | West Bank News

A week after he was shot in his village in the West Bank, Fadi al-Nassan’s death comes amid violence by settlers.

A Palestinian boy who played for his country’s youth football team has died from a gunshot wound when Israeli settlers attacked his village in entered the West BankHis elders and relatives have said so.

Fadi Hamdallah al-Nassan, 17, was shot on July 11 and died on Saturday.

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His death has brought new attention to the growing violence that Israeli colonists and the Israeli military are waging against Palestinians. West Banka territory that Israel has occupied since 1967 and the settlements continue to expand despite being illegal under international law.

Rights groups and the United Nations have said so he explained Israel’s actions in the West Bank as an apartheid system.

Al-Nassan played for Al-Mughayyir Club and was a member of the Palestinian youth team.

Scores of black-clad mourners carried his body from the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah to his hometown, al-Mughayyir, for burial on Saturday.

Palestine Football Association (PFA) he said Israeli soldiers shot al-Nassan in the thigh as settlers stormed the village. His leg was later amputated, and he died from his injuries, the agency said.

“With the departure of Fadi, the number of martyrs of the Palestinian football team since October 7, 2023, has risen to 1,013 martyrs, including 568 martyrs from the Palestinian football family,” the organization said in a statement on X.

His father, Hamdallah al-Nassan, said his son ran to the scene when he heard women and girls screaming when he was beaten.

He said: “He went to the place where the terrorist attacks took place and he was killed.”

“He was a good student, an athlete, and he loved to play soccer. Everyone loved him,” said his mother, Hanan al-Nassan.

Violence across the West Bank

Separately on Saturday, Israeli residents and soldiers set fire to Palestinian property in two separate attacks in the occupied West Bank, destroying olive trees near Ramallah and a family home near Nablus, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency.

The attacks came on the same day Israeli soldiers stormed homes in towns near Jenin, in the latest example of the violence Palestinians face in the area on an almost daily basis.

In Deir Qaddis, west of Ramallah, Israeli soldiers shot Palestinian farmers working in their fields, blew up olive groves, and started a fire that ripped through the olive groves, Wafa said.

Civil defense personnel were prevented from reaching the site, which caused the fire to spread further.

Near Nablus, a group of settlers burned down a Palestinian family’s house in the town of Tal, completely destroying it, Wafa said.

Israeli forces also entered the homes of Yabad and Mithlon, near Jenin, in what residents described as daily attacks and attacks.