NABLUS, OCCUPIED WEST BANK - Near the Israeli-occupied city of Nablus today relatives have buried Fakher Bani Jaber, who was shot by an Israeli settler on Tuesday.

The foreign ministry of the Palestinian Authority has condemned the killing, reports the Wafa news agency, with a statement blaming Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s policy of making gun distribution to Israeli citizens easier. It described the killing as a “heinous crime”.

According to the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, since 7 October, 420 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or Israeli settlers inside the occupied West Bank. Israel has occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 1967.

In Gaza City there has been a funeral for 23 Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a gathering of people at the Kuwait Roundabout. Palestinian news agency Wafa reported the gathering was to facilitate the transportation of aid.