Palestinian shot dead during Israeli settler attack on occupied West Bank village

A Palestinian man was shot dead by an Israeli during a settler attack on a village in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday evening. A relative said Alaa Khalid Subeih, 28, was killed as he tried to defend a greenhouse from the settlers in Tayasir in the northern West Bank. A senior UN official also said he was killed by a settler. The Israeli military said he was shot by an off-duty soldier and accused him of throwing stones. Tayasir has been a focus of recent violence by settlers. Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law. The killing came as ex-security chiefs warned that "government sponsored Jewish terrorism" was running wild in the West Bank and the Israeli government reportedly approved dozens more settlements. Tayasir is in an area of the West Bank that is supposed to be under the security control of the Palestinian Authority. Last month, a CNN crew covering violence there was detained by Israeli soldiers. The military later said there was an incident with the CNN team which involved "actions and behaviour" incompatible with what is expected of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Saeb Subeih said his cousin Alaa, a school janitor, was "one