As the search went on, settlers torched homes in Mughayir and shot a resident.

Achimeir’s body was found a day later. The Israeli military said he had been killed in a “terrorist attack”.

At least four Palestinians were killed as settler violence spread to nearby areas over the following days.

In one incident a 17-year-old boy, Omar Hamed, was killed after being hit by a bullet in the head in an attack by a group of 30 settlers who had been accompanied by Israeli forces, Palestinian officials said. It was not clear whether he was shot by Israeli forces or settlers.

On Monday Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, Israeli police and the Israeli military said Ahmed Dawabsha, 21, had been arrested overnight for Benjamin Achimeir’s murder and had “linked himself to the attack”.

Ahmed Dawabsha was from the village of Duma, the statement said. The village – which like Mughayir is located north of the city of Ramallah – is where a settler murdered three members of a Palestinian family in an arson attack in 2015.

In 2020 Amiram Ben Uliel was convicted of three counts of murder for throwing a firebomb into the home of Saad and Riham Dawabsha, killing them and their 18-month-old son Ali, and leaving four-year-old Ahmed with severe injuries.

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