AL-MUGHAYYIR, OCCUPIED WEST BANK – A boy’s blood still stained the sidewalk in front of his school, days after an Israeli settler shot him dead.
Aws al-Nasaan, 14, was gunned down in broad daylight last week in the small Palestinian village of Al-Mughayyir, in the occupied West Bank.
His death comes amid a dramatic escalation in settler violence, alongside a push to expand Israel's control over the West Bank through new laws, settlement expansions and security crackdowns limiting Palestinians' freedom.
According to data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Israeli settlers and forces have killed at least 42 Palestinians so far this year.
Video obtained by NBC News shows a bearded man in an Israeli military uniform firing down the hill toward the school.
Aws al-Nasaan is carried after being shot in the West Bank village of Al-Mughayyir.
According to rights groups, Israeli settler violence has surged in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks. »