{"id":763768,"date":"2026-09-08T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/763768\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:48:11","slug":"uk-expected-to-announce-sanctions-on-israeli-settlements-in-occupied-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/763768\/","title":{"rendered":"UK expected to announce sanctions on Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The students and their parents are afraid,&#8217; says school teacher in occupied West Bankpublished at 09:13 BST<\/p>\n<p>09:13 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/af35b27e-ae58-4254-9416-9a1b36a0addd.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Lucy Williamson<br \/>Middle East correspondent, in al-Mughayyir, occupied West Bank<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Six people, including three pupils, have been killed in al-Mughayyir this year, in a surge of settler-related violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law. Many of the small ad-hoc settler outposts that have mushroomed around al-Mughayyir are illegal under Israeli law too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The head-teacher of al-Mughayyir boys school, Bassam al Assaf, tells me: &#8220;The students are afraid, and their parents are afraid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the pupils, 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan, was shot dead by a settler outside the gates of the school in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was inside my classroom and two little students came rushing to tell me there were settlers close to the school wall,&#8221; remembers English teacher Waheed Abu Naem, whose brother Jihad was also killed by an Israeli soldier in the same attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Waheed says he was trying to move pupils to safety inside the school gate when the settler fired towards them. Mobile phone footage shows the moment Aws was shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I turned him onto his back, I saw lots of blood coming from his nose and mouth, and the bullet in his head,&#8221; says Waheed. &#8220;We lost him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Waheed Abu stands by school barbed wire.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8ee7dead-63f0-4c7e-a672-f70d03916dd7.jpg.webp\"  width=\"4240\" height=\"2832\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">English teacher Waheed Abu Naem&#8217;s brother was killed in a shooting outside the school in April<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;The students and their parents are afraid,&#8217; says school teacher in occupied West Bankpublished at 09:13 BST 09:13&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-763768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}