• Israel-Palestine: Armed settler raids in West Bank raise fears of heightened violence | Middle East Eye

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    Two-year-old Sanad knows little about what happened to his father, Nidal Safadi, other than that he is in heaven.

    “Where is heaven?” one of his relatives asked the little boy. “Up,” he replied, looking at the sky.

    On 14 May, Israeli settlers killed Safadi, a 30-year-old Palestinian man from the village of Urif on the southern outskirts of Nablus city. In addition to Sanad, he left behind two daughters: one-year-old Ruqayya and five-year-old Maryam.
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    On the same day, Awad Harb, a 27-year-old Palestinian from the village of Iskaka in the northern occupied West Bank, was killed in similar conditions by an Israeli settler. His daughter, five-month-old Hoor, will likewise be forced to grow up without her father by her side.

    Israeli settler attacks have been escalating - both in frequency and ferocity - since 2014. However, residents and observers say that over the past few months, and particularly since the recent Palestinian protests since mid-April, which were followed by a deadly wave of violence, the Israeli army has been using settlers as a tool to further repress Palestinians.