ABU FALAH, Palestinian Territories: When Israeli settlers attacked their West Bank village of Abu Falah, Milia Hamayel told her son not to try to fight them off, but the 30-year-old went to defend a friend’s land anyway. “I called him two or three more times and he didn’t answer. After that — may God have mercy on him — that was it,” she told AFP, her lips trembling as she looked at a framed picture of her son, Thaer. A little while later Thaer was dead, shot and killed alongside another man from the village, Palestinian authorities said.