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About 100 settlers raided Jalud and burned Toubasi family homes hours after an Israeli court ordered their return, part of a night of attacks across the West Bank.
Israel's Blue Line Team redrew boundaries near four West Bank villages, reclassifying nearly 50 acres as 'state land' ahead of settlement expansion, a Palestinian family says.
Over 100 settlers overran a 15-officer Israeli escort in Jalud, torching homes a court had ordered returned to the Tubasi family. ICRC calls conditions "untenable."
Israel sealed the West Bank for Sukkot, tightening a checkpoint network the UN counts at over 300 sites among 925 obstacles restricting 3.4 million Palestinians.
New mapping of Israeli settlements shows 163 communities housing 750,000 settlers, record outpost growth, and UN data showing settler attacks doubling since 2022.
Yesh Din data shows settler violence shifting into Palestinian-ruled Areas A and B, with a Hilltop Foundation map showing 16 new outposts between Ramallah and Nablus.
UNRWA's West Bank director says Israel seized the agency's last major Jerusalem facility, part of a broader squeeze on the UN body's presence there.
Twelve countries, including France, the UK and Canada, have confirmed plans for national restrictions on trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to Anadolu Agency.
OCHA has recorded over 1,300 settler attacks and 2,300 Palestinian displacements in the West Bank in 2026, as recurring military-backed incursions reshape access to land and movement.
Burin farmers describe settlers destroying five greenhouses overnight and burning crops, part of a UN-tracked surge in West Bank settler attacks in 2026.
Israeli forces tear-gassed worshippers in a Nablus-area mosque and settlers torched another nearby, part of a Palestinian ministry count of 13 mosques attacked this year.
Netanyahu told a settlers' event Israel had 'established and legalised' 104 communities and 160 farms in the West Bank, promising more to come before October elections.
