On April 21 2025, dozens of settlers coming from the direction of a new illegal outpost established during the previous night on the lands of Sinjil began setting fire to agricultural structures, equipment, and residential tents of Palestinian communities.

The perpetrators arrived accompanied by Israeli soldiers who shot stun grenades and tear gas at the Palestinians who tried to put out the fires.

A farm owner suffered a heart attack after being physically assaulted, sprayed with tear gas, and struck in the face by Israeli settlers. He was hospitalised and died following of hearth attack.

The settlers also torched the farm, destroyed a workshop under construction, stole 45 sheep, killed several more, and burned three livestock barracks.

No Israelis were arrested while a Palestinian was detained.

Yesh Din investigation

@Yesh_Din researcher reported that dozens of settlers who arrived in the area, set fire to tents of Palestinian communities, agricultural warehouses and fields, as well as vehicles. The settlers arrived with military force that fired tear gas and rubber bullets at farmers who tried to defend their property. The settlers arrived from a new outpost established in Area B.

Weapon

Tear gas is commonly used by Israeli forces during raids across the occupied West Bank to disperse crowds. However, rights groups have long accused Israel of misusing the weapon. Though classified as a riot-control agent intended for open-air use, Israeli forces have fired tear gas into homes, clinics, schools, hospitals, and mosques, Amnesty International reported as early as 1988, provoking suffocation and injuring civilians.

Victim :

Wael Ghafri, 48, died due to suffocation from tear gas bombs fired by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, the Palestinian Health Ministry reports.

Other testimonies said that he went to put out the fire when Israeli forces prevented him from reaching his home and he fought them with his bare hands and was immediately shot and martyred.