Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence reported that two Palestinians had been killed in the West Bank village of Mughayir, including one child, after Israeli settlers attacked a local school.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society later confirmed that two Palestinians had been killed, a 14-year-old and a 32-year-old. It also stated that four others had been wounded by gunfire during the incident.
The IDF, responding to the event, stated that troops had been dispatched to the village following a report of rocks being thrown at an Israeli vehicle.
The passengers in the vehicle, the IDF said, included a reserve soldier, who opened fire at suspects in the area.
"The IDF is aware of the claim regarding two Palestinians who were killed, and additional injuries. The incident is under review, and its findings will be transferred to the relevant authorities," the military concluded.
Ahmad Tibi claims attack was 'massacre'
MK Ahmad Tibi of the secular Arab Hadash-Ta’al Party decried the attack, calling it a "massacre," and claiming the Israeli media was hypocritical for its reporting on it.
"It seems to me that if it were the other way around, the Israeli media would immediately publish: 'Terrorists carried out a massacre of students and residents,'" he wrote in a post on X/Twitter.
Tibi also claimed that the attack had been done "with full responsibility of the Chief of Staff and the Commander [Central Command], and with the support of the Israeli government that budgets, supports, and encourages the pogroms, massacres, and burnings carried out by Jewish settlers against Palestinians within their villages in the West Bank."
He also claimed that the settlers had fired directly into the classrooms of the school.
In a later post, Tibi said that residents of the village had identified the shooter as the principal of the Homesh yeshiva.