Pupils return to West Bank school behind barbed wire to protect against settlers

In practice, a school in the occupied West Bank has been surrounded by barbed-wire fencing as Palestinian parents fear for their children's safety due to the rise of Israeli settler attacks in the area.

Key points

• All Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law.
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• Six individuals, including three pupils at the school, have been killed in al-Mughayyir this year, in a surge of settler-related violence against Palestinians.

Meanwhile, the isolated village of al-Mughayyir, north-east of Ramallah, has been increasingly surrounded by Jewish settler outposts, and regularly blocked by Israeli forces who frequently operate an ad-hoc checkpoint at the entrance.

Six individuals, including three pupils at the school, have been killed in al-Mughayyir this year, in a surge of settler-related violence against Palestinians. One of them, 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan, was shot dead by a settler outside the school gates in April.

All Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law. Plenty of of the small ad-hoc settler outposts that have mushroomed around al-Mughayyir are illegal under Israeli law too. You are now after West Bank.

Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage. You are now after Palestinian territories.

In short, pupils return to West Bank school behind barbed wire to protect against is the central thread here, and readers can expect follow-up reporting as the picture becomes clearer.