The Gaza Health Ministry announced that 1,005 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the October ceasefire. This comes amidst reports of Israeli settler violence, including the burning of mosques and expansion of settlements in the West Bank, and a UN warning about potential blacklisting for violations against children.
According to a report by Finnish public broadcaster Yle, Israeli settlers have destroyed schools and other community infrastructure in the occupied West Bank that had received support from Finland and other international donors.
The Palestinian death toll in Gaza has surpassed 73,000, according to health officials, as Israeli attacks continue despite a ceasefire. Reports also indicate Israeli settlers torched vehicles and a mosque in the West Bank.
A new Oxfam analysis reveals a significant increase in attacks by Israeli settlers and military forces in the occupied West Bank, stating that 268 children have been killed over the past three years, with over 540 incidents in the first months of 2026 alone.
The UK, Canada, France, Norway, and other nations have announced coordinated sanctions against individuals and entities linked to escalating violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, which diplomats say undermines prospects for a Palestinian state.
Growing numbers of Palestinian communities are being forced to flee their villages in the Jordan Valley due to ongoing attacks by Israeli settlers, who are driving shepherds from their grazing lands.
An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon has reportedly killed a senior leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, along with several other individuals, including his 17-year-old daughter. The attack resulted in at least seven fatalities.
The European Commission has proposed new initiatives aimed at simplifying cross-border train bookings and enhancing passenger rights across Europe. These measures seek to make train travel more accessible and convenient for journeys involving multiple countries and operators.
The European Union has adopted new legislation aimed at addressing and preventing shortages of essential medicines across its member states. This measure seeks to ensure a more stable supply chain for pharmaceuticals within the bloc.
The EU's foreign policy chief announced an agreement to sanction "extremist Israeli settlers," stating that violence has consequences. The long-awaited deal, reached in Brussels, immediately drew strong reactions from an Israeli minister.
A Palestinian family reported that Israeli settlers forced them to exhume their father's body from a grave near Sha-Nur, necessitating the relocation of the burial. This incident occurred as the Palestine Marathon returned after a two-year hiatus.
Israeli settlers are intensifying efforts to evict Palestinians in East Jerusalem, often using archaeological claims, and increasing attacks across the West Bank. These actions are occurring while global attention is diverted by the Iran war.
More than a week after a shooting near a West Bank school killed a teenage boy and a man, a mother mourns her son, as the community remains on edge and fears further violence from Israeli settlers and the military.
Israeli strikes reportedly killed at least 12-13 people in Gaza and several in Lebanon, despite an extended ceasefire, marking a significant escalation of violence in the region.
Several Arab and Islamic countries, including Qatar, Jordan, UAE, and Pakistan, have issued condemnations against recent Israeli violations and incursions at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and other Jerusalem holy sites. They collectively denounced the actions as violations.
Approximately 40 Israeli settlers illegally crossed the border into Syrian territory, with some reportedly barricading themselves in a building. The Israeli military (IDF) intervened and returned the individuals to Israel.
Israeli settlers reportedly blocked the path of Palestinian pupils to their school using barbed wire. This action prevented the children from accessing their educational facility.
More than 200 Israeli settlers, accompanied by a rabbi, reportedly stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under police protection, according to a Waqf official.
An analysis explores Israel's undeclared borders and the concept of "Greater Israel," a biblical idea of extending the country's territory that is gaining traction among Israeli settlers and ministers.
Israel launched an attack on Iran's largest petrochemical complex, identified by some reports as the South Pars facility. The Israeli Defense Minister confirmed the strike, stating the complex accounts for approximately half of Iran's petrochemical production.
Israeli settlers, accompanied by police, have taken over 13 Palestinian apartments in East Jerusalem, continuing a policy of displacement supported by court decisions.
At least 10 Palestinians were injured in attacks by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on March 23, as the group rampaged through villages after a funeral for an 18-year-old settler killed in a car crash.
Israeli settlers targeted Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, attacking people and properties, following the death of 18-year-old settler Yehuda Sherman, who was reportedly hit by a Palestinian-driven vehicle.
Palestinian authorities have called on the European Union to reject the "systematic" violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers, denouncing killings and attacks and demanding accountability from the perpetrators. The EU has strongly condemned the violence in the Gaza Strip.
The European Union delegation and several European countries have condemned the escalating violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
The United Nations has issued a warning about a sharp increase in violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, raising concerns about the risk of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, which could constitute a war crime.
Israeli settlers reportedly shot and injured several Palestinians, and in a separate incident, stole approximately 100 sheep from Palestinians, according to the Wafa news agency.
The war between the US, Israel, and Iran has intensified with heavy strikes on Iranian targets and regional expansion, leading to nearly 800,000 people displaced and a serious humanitarian emergency.
Two brothers were killed during an attack by Israeli settlers. As war with Iran rages, settlement expansion in the West Bank is continuing at an unprecedented pace, with almost total impunity.
A Palestinian man was seriously wounded after illegal Israeli settlers opened fire on his vehicle south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian media on Thurs...
Residents of the Palestinian village of Susiya reported that Israeli settlers set fire to vehicles and tents, in the latest incident of settler violence in the West Bank.
Israeli settlers reportedly attempted to set fire to a part of the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque in Tell village, near Nablus, and wrote racist slogans on its walls.
Israeli planes sprayed chemicals on farmland in Quneitra, Syria in late January and early February, 2026. Farmers say that their crops yellowed and died in just a few days and that they lost dozens of hectares of farmland. There have been similar reports of the Israeli Army spraying fields in southern Lebanon and of Israeli settlers doing the same in the West Bank.
• Pakistan asks international community to reject provocative decision allowing takeover of occupied land as state property
• EU calls annexation illegal, Arab nations denounce ‘threat to peace efforts’
• Israel imposes restrictions, deploys police around Al-Aqsa
JERUSALEM / ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan denounced the latest Israeli move to convert areas of the West Bank into “state property”, the UN chief called upon Tel Aviv to reverse its new, “unlawful” policy allowing registration of the occupied land in the occupied territory as state property.
Israel’s foreign ministry claimed the measure, approved late on Sunday, would enable “transparent and thorough clarification of rights to resolve legal disputes” but the move drew strong condemnations from across the globe for its violation of international law.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said this new measure was destabilising and unlawful, according to a statement by his spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
Pakistan also denounced the step as a clear violation of international law as well as relevant United Nations Security Council and General Assembly resolutions. Islamabad urged the international community to reject the decision, said a statement issued by the Foreign Office spokesperson. It added that the occupying power continued to disregard international law and its provocative actions undermined the prospects for a just, comprehensive, and lasting peace in the region.
“Pakistan calls on the international community to take concrete measures to end Israeli impunity, and ensure respect for international law,” the spokesperson added.
‘Undermine peace efforts’
Arab nations Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar and Jordan also criticised the move as illegal. The measure is “aimed at imposing a new legal and administrative reality in the occupied West Bank” that would undermine peace efforts in the region, Saudi Arabia’s foreign affairs ministry said in a statement.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II said the actions “undermine efforts to restore calm and threaten to exacerbate the conflict,” according to a statement released by the royal court.
The European Union called on Israel to reverse the move. “This constitutes a new escalation after recent measures already aimed at extending Israeli control,” EU foreign affairs spokesman Anouar El Anouni said. “We reiterate that annexation is illegal under international law.”
The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority called for international intervention to prevent the “de facto beginning of the annexation process and the undermining of the foundations of the Palestinian state”.
Israeli anti-settlement watchdog Peace Now called the measure a “mega land grab”. Jonathan Mizrachi, the NGO’s co-director, told AFP that the move would attribute new resources for land registration.
“There was a lot of ambiguity regarding the land, and Israel decided now to deal with it,” Mizrachi said, adding that the grey area over Area C land ownership was likely to be used against Palestinians.
“A lot of land that Palestinians consider theirs, they will find out it’s not theirs under this new registration process,” he said, believing the move would further the Israeli right’s annexation agenda.
Changing demography
Palestinians see the West Bank as foundational to any future Palestinian state, but many on Israel’s religious right want to take over the land.
The latest Israeli initiatives come in the wider context of increasing attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, according to rights groups.
“We are witnessing rapid steps to change permanently the demography of the occupied Palestinian territory, stripping its people of their lands and forcing them to leave,” UN rights chief Volker Turk said in a recent statement.
US President Donald Trump has opposed Israel’s annexation of the West Bank, saying stability in the territory helps keep Israel secure.
However, he has held off from directly criticising the new Israeli measures, despite the international outrage.
Excluding Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, more than 500,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements and outposts, which are illegal under international law.
Around three million Palestinians live in the territory, which Israel has occupied since 1967.
Al-Aqsa restrictions
Israeli police said Monday that they would deploy in force around the Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramazan, as Palestinian officials accused Israel of imposing restrictions at the compound.
Over the course of the month of fasting and prayer, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians traditionally attend prayers at Islam’s third-holiest site. Arad Braverman, a senior Jerusalem police officer, said forces would be deployed “day and night” across the compound, adding that thousands of police would also be on duty for Friday prayers.
Braverman said police had recommended issuing 10,000 permits for Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, who require special permission to enter Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Jerusalem Governorate said it had been informed that permits would again be restricted to men over 55.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that Israeli settler groups could be added to a global blacklist for violations against children, expressing alarm at the situation.
Israeli settlers set fire to two mosques in the West Bank, with Palestinian officials reporting the incidents. Additionally, Israeli settlers destroyed schools in the West Bank that were funded by Finland and other international donors.
Violence by radical Israeli settlers against the Palestinian population in the occupied West Bank has reached an unprecedented level, according to new United Nations data. Over a thousand attacks have been reported since the beginning of the year.
The UK, Canada, France, Norway, and Australia have announced coordinated sanctions targeting Israeli settlers and networks involved in violence in the West Bank. France has also banned two Israeli ministers from entering the country as part of this push.
Israeli settlers have reportedly torched Palestinian homes in Khirbet Abu Falah, a village near Ramallah, which has experienced over 30 settler attacks since late March.
A Palestinian doctor was killed and three people were injured in an Israeli attack on Gaza, while Israeli settlers also attacked Palestinian homes and property across the occupied West Bank.
The United States is reportedly pressuring the Palestinian UN envoy to withdraw from a bid for a General Assembly vice presidency. Reports indicate that the US has threatened to revoke the envoy's visa if they do not comply.
A West Bank bishop expressed belief that Israeli settlers are unconcerned by the Occupied Territories Bill, while the Bishop of Jerusalem described the survival of people amidst the Gaza disaster as a miracle. Both religious leaders offered perspectives on the ongoing situation in the Palestinian territories.
Israeli settlers, protected by the military, entered Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank, leading to heightened tensions and the postponement of classes in the area.
European Union ministers have reached an agreement to impose sanctions on Israeli settlers in the West Bank. This decision has drawn a furious reaction from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who condemned the EU's move.
The European Union is expected to approve new sanctions targeting violent Israeli settlers, with a political agreement already reached among member states. These measures are anticipated to be finalized soon.
Israeli settlers have engaged in violent raids, including setting fire to homes and cars, and forced a Palestinian family to exhume their father in the West Bank. Pakistan has raised alarm at the UN over Israel's systematic annexation and illegal settlement expansion in the occupied territory.
This article provides a commentary on the ongoing suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, noting that over 800 civilians have been killed and conditions remain dire six months after a ceasefire, alongside a surge in violence from Israeli settlers and soldiers.
The article reports on allegations that Israeli settlers are using water as a weapon against Palestinians in the West Bank, detailing an incident where masked men cut a fence at a pumping station.
Groups of Israeli settlers reportedly crossed into Syria and Lebanon this week with the aim of establishing new settlements in areas currently under Israeli military occupation.
Israeli activists crossed the border into Syria and were forcibly returned by the army, highlighting growing tensions around plans for new Jewish settlements.
Israeli settlers launched a deadly attack in the West Bank, killing two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old schoolboy, near a school. The incident also involved settlers blocking children from accessing the school and setting a Palestinian home on fire.
Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old, were killed during an attack by Israeli settlers near a school in a West Bank village. Witnesses reported that settlers attacked the village, leading to clashes where Israeli forces also opened fire, resulting in the fatalities and several injuries.
Palestinian children have protested against Israeli settlers and troops who are blocking the only safe route to their school, preventing their access to education.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has outlined conditions for a potential agreement with Lebanon, stating that the disbandment of Hezbollah is a primary goal while Israeli forces continue strikes against the group. He also commented on a possible truce with Iran, emphasizing Israel's readiness for any future conflict scenario.
Israeli settlers, under the protection of Israeli police, reportedly stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in Jerusalem on Monday, with an extreme Jewish rabbi performing a religious ritual.
Pedro Sanchez underlined the need for the European Union to play a more active and leading role on the international stage, not only militarily but also in terms of values.
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Israel constructed 6,000 housing units in the occupied Palestinian West Bank between December and March, coinciding with an escalation of violence by Israeli settlers in the region.
Israeli settlers have rampaged through West Bank towns for a second consecutive night, attacking people and properties, setting fire to homes and cars, and injuring at least nine Palestinians, in violence that began in retaliation for the death of 18-year-old settler Yehuda Sherman. This surge in settler violence coincides with the Israeli government's continued expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that nine people were injured, one by gunfire, after an attack by Israeli settlers on the village of Deir Hatab in the West Bank.
Israel's Foreign Minister publicly accused a German envoy of having an "obsession" with Israeli settlers during an online exchange, revealing diplomatic tensions.
Israeli settlers have reportedly set fire to homes and cars near Jenin in the West Bank, leading to casualties amid widespread violence across the occupied territory.
A Palestinian man has reported that he was sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers in front of his family, an incident that highlights ongoing tensions in the region.
A Palestinian man in the West Bank has reported that he was sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers, prompting concerns about settler violence in the region.
Israeli settlers reportedly attacked the Palestinian village of Khirbet Humsa, where witnesses described brutal abuse of residents, including sexual assault and beatings.
Israeli settlers have intensified attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in recent days, while the Israeli army has imposed road blockades due to the war with Iran, and medical teams warn...
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More than 30 US senators have signed a letter demanding an investigation into the killing of a ninth American by Israeli settlers or soldiers in the West Bank, citing a pattern of deaths without justice.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah announced that two Palestinians died after an attack by Israeli settlers in a village in the northern part of the occupied West Bank on Monday. The Israeli army confirmed the incident to Agence France-Presse.
The US embassy has decided to offer consular services to Israeli settlers in West Bank settlements, a move many consider a violation of international law.
Israeli settlers are reportedly continuing attacks on Palestinian residents in the occupied West Bank, with local residents claiming the Israeli army is assisting them.
Dozens of Israeli settlers, under police protection, entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during Ramadan and performed rituals, despite a ban on Jewish prayer there.
Nasrallah Abu Siyam shot dead in occupied West Bank as UN human rights office accuses Israel of war crimes
Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian American man during an attack on a village, the Palestinian health ministry and a witness have said.
Raed Abu Ali, a resident of Mukhmas, said a group of settlers came to the village on Wednesday afternoon where they attacked a farmer, prompting clashes after residents intervened.
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Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian American man during an attack on a village, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Hamdan Ballal, brother of the co-director of the Oscar-winning film 'No Other Land,' was injured during an attack by Israeli settlers on his family home in the West Bank.
Palestinian local officials reported that groups of Israeli settlers set fire to two Islamic mosques in the West Bank on Wednesday, June 17, with AFP journalists confirming damage at one of the sites.
Palestinian media and French reports indicate that Israeli settlers in the West Bank attempted to set fire to a mosque while worshippers were inside. The incident has drawn international attention.
Palestinian Bedouins in the West Bank are being chased from their land by Israeli settlers, with property deeds offering no protection against the escalating violence.
Campaigners argue that current sanctions targeting Israeli settlers are insufficient and merely manage public anger, calling for sanctions to be extended to the Israeli government for a genuine shift in policy.
France, the UK, and Norway are exploring coordinated sanctions against Israel in response to escalating violence and proposed illegal settlements in the West Bank. This move comes amidst reports of Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians and a seven-month-old Palestinian baby being shot dead by Israeli troops.
Israeli settlers are reportedly shrugging off international condemnation and sanctions, with activists arguing that these measures do not adequately address the severity of violence or state involvement in settler attacks.
Pakistan and seven other Muslim countries, including Türkiye and Arab nations, have collectively condemned recent Israeli incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque. They called for an immediate halt to these actions, specifically citing the entry of Israeli settlers into the holy site.
The European Union has imposed sanctions on 'extremist' Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, aiming to protect the rights of Palestinians. This move comes amidst accusations from Russia's intelligence chief that NATO is planning a large-scale conflict in the east.
Reports indicate that radical Israeli settlers in the West Bank are using a strategy of violence to force Palestinians from their homes. This aggressive approach has drawn criticism, with some stating it does not align with Jewish values.
The European Union has imposed sanctions on Israeli settlers, a decision that followed an Irish MEP's report describing a "brutal apartheid system" in the West Bank and a shift in Hungary's position. This move targets individuals involved in actions undermining peace and security.
The European Union has officially adopted sanctions against several violent Israeli settlers and extremist organizations in the West Bank. This move, targeting individuals and groups accused of human rights abuses against Palestinians, has drawn strong condemnation from the Israeli government.
The EU, UK, and Canada have condemned "violent" Israeli settlers after an Irish Aid-backed school in the West Bank was destroyed during an overnight raid last month.
Following the arson of a Palestinian home, Israeli settlers have reportedly returned to the area, with their presence observed under the watch of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are expressing fears for their children's safety after an attack at a school killed two people, including a 14-year-old, which they attribute to Israeli settlers.
Israeli settlers have reportedly attacked Palestinians and set fire to a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank village of Jalud. The incident highlights ongoing tensions and violence in the region.
Dozens of Israeli settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under the protection of police, as tensions continue to escalate and restrictions are tightened in East Jerusalem.
Qatar has strongly condemned Israeli settlers storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and raising the Israeli flag, calling it a flagrant violation of international law and urging action to stop repeated breaches.
Israeli settlers reportedly entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem, where they raised an Israeli flag and performed rituals in front of the Dome of the Rock, violating the established s
A Tufts University graduate, Rumeysa Ozturk, who was targeted by the Trump administration for deportation, has returned to Turkey following a legal battle. The pro-Palestinian scholar had been subject to an immigration push by the DHS.
A 23-year-old Palestinian man was killed by gunfire during an attack by Israeli settlers in a village northwest of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry, signaling an escalation of violence.
A Palestinian was shot dead during an attack by Israeli settlers on a village in the occupied West Bank. The incident occurred as former security chiefs warned that "government sponsored Jewish terrorism" was spiraling out of control.
According to the military, several soldiers were dispatched to a site near Tayasir, a Palestinian village, where several Palestinians had reportedly begun throwing rocks at Israeli settlers.
The Israeli army announced that one of its soldiers was killed 'in battle' in southern Lebanon, an area where Israel and the pro-Iranian Shiite organization have been clashing for over a month.
Amid a surge in violent attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, often with Israeli forces standing by, pro-Israel Democrats, including AIPAC-backed lawmakers, have denounced the 'extremist' violence, highlighting how support for Israel is becoming a political liability.
Israeli settlers were filmed vandalizing a Palestinian high school in the occupied West Bank, raising an Israeli flag and reportedly using hateful slogans like "'A Good Arab Is a Dead One'".
Jewish extremist settlers attacked Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, setting fire to homes and cars over the weekend in retaliation for the death of an 18-year-old Israeli boy.
Israeli settlers have violently stormed multiple Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, torching homes and vehicles and causing injuries. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned these actions as organized terrorism and part of a genocidal campaign.
Diplomatic missions from the European Union and several European countries in Jerusalem and Ramallah have condemned the resurgence of violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
A Palestinian man claims Israeli settlers sexually assaulted him, tying his genitalia with zip ties and parading him naked in front of his family, during a mid-March attack in the occupied West Bank.
The man said his attackers stripped him naked, beat him and zip-tied his genitalia, an account corroborated by family members and a rights activist who were also beaten.
A Portuguese activist was reportedly beaten by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. A group of settlers is suspected of invading a Palestinian village, sexually assaulting a man, and assaulting and threatening women and children.
Israeli forces opened fire on a vehicle in the occupied West Bank, killing a Palestinian family of four, including two children, in Tammun. Two brothers are reported to be the only survivors of the attack, which occurred amidst a surge of deadly violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers in the region.
A rifle-wielding man, identified as a Lebanese immigrant who lost relatives in an Israeli strike in Lebanon, attacked a Detroit-area synagogue and was killed in a shootout. Police operations were underway following the gunfire exchange.
Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in the West Bank and spray-painted racist slogans on its walls. Police have condemned the incident and are searching for the perpetrators.
Israeli settlers violently attacked a 71-year-old foreign woman and a 51-year-old foreign man who were acting as 'solidarity activists' in the occupied West Bank.
The US embassy's decision to offer consular services to illegal Israeli settlers, who are reportedly burning Palestinian homes, has been criticized as a violation of international law.
Nasrallah Abu Siyam, 19, was shot dead by an Israeli settler, according to a witness and Palestinian health officials, amid rising violent settler attacks in the Israeli-occupied territory.
Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' has reported another attack by Israeli settlers on his family, resulting in his brother's hospitalization and other family members' arrests.
