Keith Adams

Nasrallah Abu Sayyam was shot near the city of Ramallah on Wednesday, becoming at least the sixth American citizen to be killed by Israeli settlers or soldiers in the

The family of Nasrallah Abu Sayyam says he was among around 30 residents of the village of Mukmas who tried to stop armed settlers stealing their goats.

As both residents and settlers threw stones, says the family, settlers shot at least three of the villagers, including Abu Sayyam, who was struck fatally.

He was a Palestinian-American, a US citizen born in Philadelphia, from where his cousin Abdul Hamid told the BBC the actions of the settlers had gone unchecked.

Tom Bateman.

According to President Trump's peace plan for Gaza, the territory will eventually be run by a reformed Palestinian authority.

However, the authority looks weaker than ever in parts of the occupied West Bank, where it's supposed to govern as Israel continues to expand settlements there.

And this week, a far-right Israeli minister has proposed dismantling the PA and announced new steps which critics say amount to a de facto annexation of the West Bank.

Here's our Middle East correspondent, Yoland Nel.

With Israeli settler violence surging in the West Bank, El Mughay is on the front line.

It's recently seen farmland confiscated and new outposts nearby.

Marzouk Abou Naim from the village council says the settlers aim to force out Palestinians.

Al-Mughaya is in an area where Israel's army controls security, but the Palestinian Authority should provide public services.

Increasingly, though, it can't.

Israel's been withholding tax money that it collects for the PA because of payments it makes to Palestinian prisoners.

The PA says it's made reforms, but the disputes deepened a financial crisis.

One mother tells me her eight young children are meant to go to a local PA school.

Nearby, in the West Bank, we see new settlement roads being built.

This is all land that the Palestinians want for an independent state of their own.

But the growth of Israeli settlements, seen as illegal under international law, is at a record high.