“I want you to drape me with the flags of Palestine and Egypt when I get martyred,” 19-year-old Omar Na’saan told his sister before his last will became a reality at the hands of Israeli forces and colonists on Wednesday, September 2.

Na’ssan, who was born to an Egyptian mother, was not the only Palestinian to be shot dead in the settler attack that day in Al-Mughayyir village, northeast of the West Bank central governorate of Ramallah and Al-Bireh. Khalil Abu Alia, the same age as Na’ssan, was also killed in Israeli gunfire.

According to media reports, Israeli soldiers not only escorted the settlers while attacking the village, but Israeli snipers were also deployed to the tops of buildings and opened fire on Palestinians who tried to confront the attack.

The “martyr-to-be”

The last will of Na’assan reflects a disposition many young Palestinian men have adopted in recent years, describing themselves as “martyrs-to-be.” For many, the willingness of Palestinian youth to sacrifice their lives for their homeland has remarkably increased in response to the growing Israeli violence in the occupied territory.

This mentality has grown stronger in the wake of the three-year genocidal aggression in Gaza, and the failure of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to protect its people from both the Israeli army and illegal settlers in territories presumably under its control, as per the Oslo Accords.

Meanwhile, large segments of the Palestinian grassroots believe that the US-backed security coordination process between the PA and Israel has restrained Palestinians’ inalienable right to self-determination and their right to resist foreign military occupation. This right is recognized as legitimate under international law.

On November 22, 1983, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 38/17, reaffirming “the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for their independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle.”

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Israeli settler attacks journalists in Birzeit

Two days before the deadly assault on Al-Mughayyir, an Israeli settler attacked a number of Palestinian journalists in Birzeit town, north of Ramallah.

BreakThrough News spoke to journalist Mutasem Saqf el-Hait, who was at the scene, to learn more about the circumstances of the attack.

Saqf el-Hait stated that upon arriving in Birzeit, alongside a number of other journalists to cover the demolition of two buildings belonging to a Palestinian family by Israeli forces, a settler appeared with his sheep.

“He came from a settlement outpost called Kfar Tarfoun, which was illegally established on the lands of the nearby Atarah village in 2025. The Israeli forces were a distance away from us when the settler arrived alone with his sheep,” Mutasem said.

“Upon his arrival, the settler attacked some of the journalists physically in an attempt to expel us from the area. He beat journalists Salman al-Khatib and Diyaa Hoshiyeh, and attacked Mohammad Turkman, a Reuters photojournalist, with pepper spray,” Mutasem continued.

Saqf el-Hait added that the attacker later called another settler to the area. Israeli forces also arrived, though only after the journalists had already left.

With less than three months remaining before the Palestinian Legislative Council elections and two months until the Israeli legislative vote, security conditions in occupied Palestine are only worsening. Analysts argue that escalating violence by Israel will cast a shadow on electoral processes and influence their final outcomes.

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