Cars and homes burnt as Israeli settlers rampage through occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers have injured at least 10 Palestinians, as well as smashing cars and setting fires, as they rampaged through villages in the West Bank.

The violence on Sunday night came after the funeral of Yehuda Sherman, an 18-year-old Israeli settler, who was killed in a collision with a Palestinian vehicle in the area.

Among those wounded in the unrest was a 45-year-old man shot in the foot and a woman suffering from smoke inhalation, according to The Palestinian Red Crescent Society.

Videos from the scene showed cars and homes were set ablaze as army flares lit up the sky above the village of Deir al-Hatab.

A day earlier, simultaneous attacks were reported in at least six West Bank communities overnight by the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA.

The settlers claim that the crash which killed Sherman was deliberate. Police say they are investigating.

Three Palestinians were also killed and 10 people injured after an Israeli strike hit the central Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, officials at Awda Hospital said.

Hours earlier, another Palestinian had been killed in a strike in northern Gaza.

Israeli strikes on Gaza declined in the days after the Iran war began on 28 February, but locals say they have started to rise again.

At least 680 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza since the October ceasefire, including dozens in recent weeks, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.

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Israel, meanwhile, claims four of its ​soldiers in Gaza have been killed in the ​same period. Both sides accused each other of violating the truce.

The uneasy ceasefire brought a close to a war lasting more than two years, which reportedly claimed over 70,000 lives.

It was sparked by Hamas attacks on southern Israel on 7 October, 2023.

On Sunday, Israel's foreign minister, Gideon Saar, criticised a social media post by Steffen Seibert, the outgoing German ambassador, for mentioning the death of the teenager alongside a condemnation of the violence.

Mr Saar welcomed the imminent departure of Mr Seibert, claiming that his "obsession" with settlers in the West Bank had stopped him from condemning the death of the Israeli.

"Seibert finds it very difficult to condemn attacks against Israelis without bringing up the Palestinians," wrote Mr Saar.

A spokesperson for Germany's Foreign Ministry stated on Monday that the ministry stands behind its outgoing ambassador.

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