On Saturday, 7 March 2026, at around 4:00 P.M., farmers from Khirbet Wadi a-Rakhim in the South Hebron Hills, noticed four settlers on grazing a herd of cattle on their privately-owned farmland. The settlers were carrying clubs and sticks.
The farmers called the police and approached the settlers. They started filming them, shouted at them to leave, and tried to drive them and their cattle away from the crops. A confrontation broke out between the settlers and the residents, some of whom were carrying sticks and pipes, during which Muhammad Shinaran was injured. According to right-wing media outlets, one of the settlers was also injured.
At a certain point, the farmers began to move away. At the same time, two settlers drove up on an ATV: Luria Luski, who was armed with a rifle and wearing military uniform, and his brother Shem Tov Luski.
When the two brothers arrived, the settlers went back to attacking the residents with clubs and stones, and one of them hit Muhammad Shinaran on the head and legs with a club. At that moment, Shinaran’s son Amir, 28, arrived at the scene and Luria Luski fired a shot in the air.
Amir approached the settlers, and Luria then fired one shot at him from a distance of about five meters. The bullet struck his shoulder and exited through his neck, and he immediately fell to the ground. Luria then fired again, hitting Amir’s brother Khaled, 33. The bullet passed through his arm and lodged in his abdomen.
The settlers stayed put for several minutes while Amir and Khaled Shinaran lay on the ground, until village residents took them in private vehicles to the hospital in Yatta, where Amir was pronounced dead. Their father Muhammad was released that same evening after the wound above his eye was stitched.
Khaled Shinaran was transferred to al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, and is still undergoing rehabilitation in Beit Jala.
Only after the wounded persons were evacuated did large military and police forces arrive at the scene. The soldiers began breaking into residents’ homes and conducting searches. Among other things, soldiers entered the home of Hajar Shinaran and confined her in the kitchen along with her children, Amir’s wife Dalal Shinaran and their two young children, and other women from the family. The soldiers searched the house and, upon finding a toy rifle and a shepherd’s stick, shouted at Hajar and the children and accused them of attacking settlers.
The soldiers held the women and children in the kitchen until around 9:30 P.M. and then left, taking with them the recording device of the security cameras installed there. The device and the footage have not been returned.
On social media posts, the settlers claimed Amir Shinaran was shot in self-defense after Palestinians attacked settlers who were grazing sheep in the area. B’Tselem’s research, however, reveals that Shinaran was shot while rushing to his father's aid, after the father was attacked by settlers as he tried to leave the site of the clashes.
From 7 October 2023 to 28 April 2026, Israel killed 1,068 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 232 children and teens. Of all these, 32 people were killed by settlers, and in another 15 cases, B’Tselem’s investigation could not determine whether they were killed by soldiers or Israeli civilians, including settlers.