Palestinian teenagers have been killed during what officials described as a settler attack on the West Bank village of Al-Mughayyir.
The village council said the teenagers had been trying to stop settlers from stealing sheep when the incident occurred. The account places the deaths within a confrontation involving residents and settlers in the village.
The Israeli military gave a different account, saying the teenagers had thrown stones at its troops. The supplied material does not provide further details on how the teenagers were killed, how many people were involved, or whether any arrests or investigations have been announced.
Al-Mughayyir is a village in the West Bank, where incidents involving Palestinian residents, Israeli settlers and Israeli forces are frequently subject to sharply conflicting accounts. In this case, the central disagreement concerns whether the teenagers were attempting to prevent the theft of livestock, as the village council said, or whether they were involved in stone-throwing at Israeli troops, as the military said.
The latest known position is that officials have reported the deaths, while the village council and the Israeli military have offered opposing descriptions of the circumstances surrounding the incident.
