Israeli settlers kill Palestinian student, wound children in West Bank school attack

Illegal Israeli settlers opened fire on a Palestinian school in the village of Al Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank on April 21, 2026, killing two people including a 14-year-old student and injuring multiple children. The attack occurred after settlers and Israeli occupation forces entered the village and began shooting at the school. The incident reflects ongoing tensions between Palestinian communities and Israeli settler expansion in the West Bank, a territory at the center of decades of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The U.S. provides Israel with approximately $3.8 billion in annual military aid, making American policy toward Israeli security and Palestinian civilian protection a direct domestic policy question.