A Palestinian nurse has been permanently paralyzed after settler gunfire in the southern West Bank on Friday evening severed his spinal cord, according to the Palestinian Nursing and Midwifery Association.

Meanwhile, settlers continued to besiege two family homes in the village of Qusra.

The shooting of 26-year-old Muhammad al-Mutawwar near his home in the Hebron-area town of Sa’ir was “not a passing or individual incident, but the continuation of ongoing attacks on our Palestinian people, and on healthcare workers in particular,” the national nursing organization said.

Mutawwar, a nurse at the governmental hospital in the southern West Bank’s Dura, was shot in the back when settlers opened fire on Sa’ir’s al-Uddeissa area, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Another young woman was also hit in the back and in the head, the Red Crescent said. Both of the wounded were taken to a hospital in Hebron.

Palestinian media reported that the two were shot as some 30 settlers attacked al-Uddeissa from a nearby outpost established about 10 days ago.

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— فلسطين أون لايـن (@F24online) August 15, 2026

In footage published by Palestinian outlets from around dusk on Friday, three gunshots could be heard that were apparently fired at homes in al-Uddeissa from a hilltop opposite them.

In separate incidents on Saturday, the Palestinian Authority’s official news outlet WAFA reported that five Palestinians, mostly women and children, were injured in a settler attack on Umm al-Khair in the South Hebron Hills area of the West Bank.

They suffered various........

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