Settlers kill Mashour Yassin at his home on the edge of Yasuf

Israeli settlers shot and killed Mashour Yassin, 51, at his home on the outskirts of Yasuf in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian officials said. A second Palestinian was wounded in the same attack, according to Reuters. The Israeli military said it was checking the incident. It did not announce an arrest on Thursday.

Jumaa Abdel Fattah, head of the Yasuf village council, said the shooters came from the direction of a settler outpost built near the village about two months ago. He said settlers had been attacking the village continuously since that outpost went up. Yasuf sits south of Nablus. An outpost on its edge, established in high summer and still there in October, is the local fact that turns a single shooting into a pattern the council says it has been living with for eight weeks.

The casualty count is not identical across outlets. Reuters reported that settlers shot two Palestinians, killing one and injuring the other. A Wikipedia current-events line citing Reuters said two others were injured. Haaretz reported that settlers shot and killed a Palestinian and wounded others, and that the council head said the attack on homes took place under the protection of Israeli forces. The same Haaretz account said the army blocked an ambulance in the village, took the key and threw it away. Those last two claims are attributed to local officials in a subscriber report. They are not in the Reuters dispatch. The confirmed core is Yassin's death, at least one other person shot, an outpost the council dates to about two months ago, and an army statement that the incident is under check.

The year's wider count comes from the United Nations. Reuters, citing the UN, said Israel's military and settlers have killed more than 80 Palestinians in the West Bank since the beginning of 2026. That figure includes deaths in raids and deaths in settler attacks. It is not a count of Yasuf alone. It is the baseline against which Thursday's killing will be added, if UN monitors confirm the circumstances. Rights groups argue that new outposts on the edge of villages function as a land seizure, shrinking the ground on which a Palestinian state would have to be drawn. The Israeli government rejects that framing and treats many outposts as candidates for later authorisation. Yassin's house sits on the line where those two descriptions meet.

Israel captured the West Bank in 1967. The territory has been under military occupation since. Settlement building expanded again under Benjamin Netanyahu's current government, including outposts that start without formal approval and then seek it. Yasuf's council is describing one of those outposts, two months old, as the origin point of the shooters. If that direction of fire is confirmed, the investigative question for the army is whether the shooters are identified with that outpost, and whether the outpost itself remains. Checking an incident, which is the verb the military used, does not by itself remove the buildings the council says the shooters came from.

West Bank killings this year have rarely produced a same-day arrest that Palestinian officials accept as adequate. Thursday fits the early shape of that record: a named dead man, a village account of where the shooters came from, and a military statement that stops at checking. The two-month-old outpost is the detail that will decide whether this is filed as a criminal attack by individuals or as a product of a new presence on Yasuf's edge. The open question is whether the army's check names a suspect before the next report from the same outpost, because the council says the attacks did not start on Thursday.