The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that Ziad Muhammad Jaber (54 years old) was killed by Israeli occupation army gunfire in the Umm al-Sharayet neighborhood of Al-Bireh.
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According to circulating information, Israeli special forces raided Jaber’s house around 4:00 AM and shot him. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society had previously reported that its crews dealt with a live bullet wound to the abdomen and thigh, describing his condition at the time as “very serious,” before performing CPR and transferring him to the hospital.
Ramadan Jaber, Ziad’s brother, told Anadolu that Israeli occupation forces stormed the family home and broke down its door. The soldiers asked about his brother Ziad before they stormed his house and the family heard gunfire.
He added that the soldiers tied him and his daughter up inside one of the rooms, then stormed into another room and assaulted his son Omar and arrested him, while Ziad remained injured inside the house for about an hour and a half before the ambulance crews arrived.
He explained that the forces locked the door of the room on him and his daughter and prevented them from going out or seeing his injured brother. They also confiscated their IDs and phones and searched the house's closets and contents before withdrawing.
He said that Red Crescent crews arrived after the occupation army withdrew and carried his brother out of the house, without the forces allowing them to see him or approach him while they were at the scene, describing what happened as a "cold-blooded execution".
Settler attacks on Palestinians and their property
In the Bethlehem Governorate, the Al-Baydar human rights organization said that settlers stormed the home of an elderly man and his wife in the town of Abu Najim, southeast of the governorate, at dawn on Tuesday, and assaulted them, causing them to suffer bruises.
In Ramallah Governorate, the organization reported that settlers stole about 300 sheep and a horse belonging to farmer Youssef Fawaz Awawdeh from the Al-Hayyan area in Deir Dibwan, east of the governorate, noting that the loss of livestock represents a major blow to the farmer and his family, especially since livestock constitutes a primary source of livelihood for many farmers in the targeted areas.
She also said that a settler appeared grazing his sheep in the vicinity of citizens’ homes in the village of Yabroud, east of Ramallah, and that settlers also grazed their livestock near the homes of Palestinians in the village of Ain Yabroud, considering that bringing livestock into these areas represents an infringement on citizens’ lands and properties and increases the state of tension.
In the northern Jordan Valley, the organization reported that settlers stormed a community northeast of Tayasir with their livestock and released them into citizens' lands and pastures.
In the Jerusalem Governorate, Al-Baydar reported that Israelis established a settlement outpost on the lands of Beit Iksa village, west of Jerusalem, making it the second outpost in the village within four months, according to the organization.
She said that the establishment of the new outpost, about four months after the establishment of another, reflects the escalating pace of settlement activity in the village and attempts to gradually seize more Palestinian land.
According to data from the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, settlers carried out 628 attacks during last August, indicating a continued escalation of their attacks on Palestinians, their lands and properties in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli notices classify Palestinian lands as "archaeological sites"
In a related development, the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said that Israeli authorities distributed notices on lands in the West Bank classifying them as "archaeological sites," imposing strict restrictions on their use or construction.
The authority explained that these notices do not mean the direct confiscation of the land or the transfer of its ownership, but they make any use of it subject to the approval of the “antiquities officer” of the so-called Israeli “civil administration”.
She added that this classification could allow Israeli authorities to issue stop-work or demolition orders, and prevent construction and use of the land, which could effectively deprive its owners of the right to dispose of it.
The Authority indicated that these notices are issued under the name “Declaration of an Archaeological Site and Demarcation of its Boundaries”, based on Article (9/B) of the Antiquities Law No. (51) of 1966, with the aim of defining an area that Israel considers an archaeological site.
She said that Israeli authorities had distributed a number of these notices in the Qalqilya, Tulkarm and Jenin governorates in the northern West Bank during the past period.
The authority stressed that the lands covered by these declarations "are not automatically confiscated," but may, due to the restrictions imposed on them, effectively become subject to Israeli administrative and planning control.
These measures coincide with Israeli steps to expand the powers of the administration of archaeological sites in the West Bank. In February 2026, the Israeli government made decisions that expanded the powers of the “Antiquities Officer” of the Civil Administration to include measures at archaeological sites in areas that are partly under the administration of the Palestinian Authority, according to the Israeli organization “Emek Shaveh”.
Last May, the Knesset passed in its first reading a bill to establish a civilian “heritage authority” under the Israeli Ministry of Heritage to manage antiquities and heritage sites in the West Bank instead of the antiquities unit in the Civil Administration, before the project was later halted, according to the same organization.
Since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 8, 2023, the West Bank has witnessed a continuous Israeli escalation, coinciding with an increase in settler attacks on Palestinians, their property and lands, amid frequent incursions into cities, towns and camps, raids, arrests and shootings.
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