A teenage Israeli settler was killed in an incident in the West Bank on Saturday, after the ATV he was traveling in was hit by a Palestinian vehicle, the Israel Police said.

Security forces were dispatched to Beit Imrin, near Nablus, following the incident, the alleged origin of the vehicle. Officials said they were investigating whether the incident was an accident or a terror attack.

Yehuda Sherman, aged 18, who lived in the illegal settlement outpost of Shuva Yisrael Farms in the northern West Bank, was conducting a “land patrol” with two other men on Saturday afternoon, including Sherman’s brother, Daniel, who lives in and runs the wildcat outpost, the Samaria District Council said.

The council’s statement alleged that the Palestinian vehicle sped up toward the ATV before hitting it, although neither the police nor the army statement included such details.

Sherman was fatally wounded, while his brother Daniel was lightly injured.

Police said that officers from the Samaria region, together with traffic accident investigators and forensic investigators from the Judea and Samaria District, arrived at the scene to search for evidence, while police detectives took witness statements from Daniel.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a settlements advocate, described the incident as “murder” and expressed his condolences to Sherman’s parents, who are activists within Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party.

“Condolences from the bottom........

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