The official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, reported that a Palestinian worker was killed by Israeli occupation forces near the separation wall in the town of Al-Ram.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its crews received a martyr from the suburb area of Jerusalem who was shot after crossing the apartheid wall. The man was transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.
For its part, the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions announced on Monday that the Israeli occupation army had killed nine workers since the beginning of the year 2025, while the total number of martyrs has reached 38 workers since the start of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
This came in a statement issued by the union, following the killing of a Palestinian worker near the city of Jerusalem (central), while attempting to cross the wall surrounding the city to look for work inside Israel.
The union's statement spoke of "9 worker martyrs...whose deaths were caused by the occupation, whether by shooting them, during their detention, at the wall (separating the West Bank from the Israeli settlements) while they were going to and from their workplaces, or by storming the workshops in which they worked."
According to the statement, the Israeli occupation has caused the martyrdom of 38 Palestinian workers since October 7, 2023.
The ceiling of the Ibrahimi Mosque
In a related development, the Palestine Liberation Organization's Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission announced on Monday that Israeli authorities had issued a decision to seize the roof of the inner courtyard of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
The Authority explained in a statement that the Israeli decision came through an expropriation order issued by the Israeli authorities today, which stipulates the seizure of an area of 288 square meters of the designated roof of the mosque (the roof of the inner courtyard).
The head of the commission, Mu'ayyad Shaaban, said in the same statement: "The occupying state is thus entering a gradual and escalating trend in targeting religious sites, in violation of all norms."
He pointed out that this decision, "coinciding with the transfer of oversight powers over the mosque from the Palestinian Waqf and Hebron Municipality to settler authorities, consolidates an approach based on undermining Islamic religious authority over the Ibrahimi Mosque and legitimizing direct settler interference in the management of its facilities and buildings, in addition to isolating it from its Palestinian surroundings and linking it administratively and security-wise to the settlement councils."
In February 2025, the Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom revealed an Israeli decision to transfer the management of the Ibrahimi Mosque from the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs and the Hebron Municipality to the so-called Jewish Religious Council in the Kiryat Arba settlement.
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In July 2017, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee declared the Ibrahimi Mosque a Palestinian heritage site.
The mosque is located in the Old City of Hebron, which is under Israeli control and is home to approximately 400 settlers guarded by approximately 1,500 Israeli soldiers.
In 1994, Israel divided the Ibrahimi Mosque, with 63 percent of its area allocated to Jews, including the call to prayer room, and 37 percent to Muslims, following a massacre committed by a Jewish settler that resulted in the deaths of 29 Palestinian worshippers.
settler attacks
In this context, Israeli settlers carried out a series of attacks on Monday evening in the Hebron Governorate, south of the occupied West Bank, cutting off electricity and water supplies to 15 Palestinian families and destroying hundreds of dunams of crops.
In the small residential area of Umm al-Khair, east of the town of Yatta, eyewitnesses said that Israeli settlers conducting excavations for settlement purposes "caused the power outage of 15 Palestinian families living in the area, after they had caused the water supply to be cut off in the same area yesterday, Sunday."
They added that settlers had recently established a settlement outpost on the village's lands, reinforced it with mobile homes, and are digging for infrastructure, without regard for the rights of Palestinian citizens.
Activists on social media posted video clips showing an excavator digging up the electricity grid and extracting it from underground, in the presence of the Israeli police and army.
Also south of Hebron, Osama Makhamreh, an activist monitoring Israeli violations, told Anadolu Agency that settlers on Monday brought more than six flocks of sheep and cows onto more than 1,000 dunams of Palestinian land planted with trees, southeast of the town of Yatta.
The Israeli occupation army is tightening its measures in the West Bank, shooting at anyone who approaches the separation wall.
In parallel with the war of extermination in Gaza, the Israeli occupation army and settlers have escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, resulting in the deaths of at least 1,022 Palestinians, the injury of approximately 7,000 others, and the arrest of more than 19,000, according to Palestinian data.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving 64,905 Palestinians dead and 164,926 wounded, most of them children and women, and causing a famine that has claimed the lives of 425 Palestinians, including 145 children.
