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title: "Palestinian teenage footballer dies of wounds a week after West Bank shooting"
description: "Fadi Hamdallah al-Nassan, 17, who played for his village club and the Palestinian national youth team, died on Saturday, a week after he was shot during an incident in the village of al-Mughayyir. The Palestinian Football Association says Israeli forces shot him while settlers attacked the village; the Israeli military has not responded to requests for comment."
category: "World"
category_url: https://newsparlor.com/category/world
author: "Aisha Carter"
published: 2026-07-18T22:38:00.000Z
updated: 2026-07-18T22:38:00.000Z
canonical: https://newsparlor.com/article/palestinian-teenage-footballer-dies-west-bank
tags: ["west-bank", "israel", "palestinians", "football", "occupied-territories"]
---
# Palestinian teenage footballer dies of wounds a week after West Bank shooting

Fadi Hamdallah al-Nassan, 17, who played for his village club and the Palestinian national youth team, died on Saturday, a week after he was shot during an incident in the village of al-Mughayyir. The Palestinian Football Association says Israeli forces shot him while settlers attacked the village; the Israeli military has not responded to requests for comment.

A 17-year-old Palestinian footballer has died of wounds sustained a week earlier in the occupied West Bank village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah.

Fadi Hamdallah al-Nassan played for Al-Mughayyir Club and had represented the Palestinian national youth team. He was shot in the thigh on July 11 and his leg was amputated, [RTE reported](https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0718/1584013-palestinian-teen-death/). He died a week later.

## Competing accounts of the shooting

The Palestinian Football Association said Israeli forces shot al-Nassan while settlers were attacking the village, [according to Al Jazeera](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/18/palestinian-teenage-footballer-dies-a-week-after-israeli-settler-attack). Haaretz reported the death under the description that he had been shot by Israeli troops.

The teenager's father, Hamdallah al-Nassan, said his son went toward the disturbance after hearing screaming. "He heard the screams of the girls and women. He went to the scene of the attack," he said, adding: "He loved football."

Accounts from the village describe settlers and Israeli soldiers arriving near a Palestinian family's home, with clashes following. Which party fired the shot that wounded al-Nassan has been attributed by Palestinian officials to Israeli forces; that attribution has not been independently confirmed, and no forensic account has been made public.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment, according to news agencies that sought one. No investigation or arrest has been announced. Israeli police and the settler community involved have not issued public statements on the incident.

## The village

Al-Mughayyir, a farming village in the hills northeast of Ramallah, has seen repeated confrontations in recent years. Al-Nassan is the seventh resident of the village to be killed by soldiers or settlers since October 2023, four of them minors.

Violence in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967 and where settlements are considered unlawful under international law by most states and by the International Court of Justice, has risen sharply over that period. Israel disputes that characterization of the settlements.

## Palestinian sport

The Palestinian Football Association has kept its own tally of athletes and sports figures killed since October 2023. It puts the total at 1,013 across all sports, including 568 from the football community, [Al Jazeera reported](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/18/palestinian-teenage-footballer-dies-a-week-after-israeli-settler-attack). Those figures are the association's own and have not been independently audited.

For al-Mughayyir, the death is a local one before it is a political one. Al-Nassan played for the village side, in a village of a few thousand people, where the club is among the few institutions that draw the community together.