SAFA – Four Palestinians were killed and four others injured, three of them critically, on Friday during a settler attack on the town of Tell, southwest of Nablus, carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said the four Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces' gunfire during the attack. The ministry added that the four injured Palestinians were transferred to Rafidia Government Hospital, where three remain in critical condition.

The attack comes amid an unprecedented escalation in settler violence across the occupied West Bank under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, alongside increasing attacks on Palestinian towns, villages, and agricultural land, as Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip continues.