‘Nowhere is safe’: Fear and mourning inside the West Bank villages where Israeli settlers went on the rampage

Sheep pass cars torched by Israeli settlers at the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir in the West Bank. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Observer

Early on Friday 12 April, 14-year-old Binyamin Achimair gathered the sheep at Gal Yosef farm, an Israeli outpost in the occupied West Bank, taking them to graze before Shabbat began at sunset. He never came back.

When the flock returned without him, the Israeli army and police launched a massive search. Around 24 hours later, the boy’s body was found by a drone and Israeli officials deemed his death a terrorist attack.