Settler attacks on Palestinians soar by 63 percent in first half of 2026 Israeli Army Radio has reported a sharp uptick in settler violence against Palestinians in the first six months of 2026. According to the report, 660 attacks were recorded in the first half of this year, compared to 405 in the same period in 2025. It added that this weekend saw "an unusual number of 30 nationalist crime incidents".
Israeli army orders removal of olive groves in Jenin Israeli military has issued two military orders to uproot vegetation and olive trees and seize Palestinian land in Jenin governorate in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported. Palestinian security sources told WAFA last night that the first military order calls for the removal of vegetation and olive trees from 32. 941 dunums (8.
Report: Israeli settlers set fire to Al-Rahma Mosque in West Bank Israeli settlers have set fire to Al-Rahma Mosque in Qusra town in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported after verifying videos of the fire consuming the mosque. The Palestinian Information Centre, citing local sources, said the mosque had been set ablaze by settlers. The arson comes as Israeli forces arrested dozens of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during a campaign launched after four Palestinians were killed while fending off a settler and Israeli military raid in the village of Tal.
Francesca Albanese: Israel can't ensure law and order in land it occupies UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, said Israel could not ensure law and order in the territory it "unlawfully occupies" and called on states to intervene. In a post on X, Albanese said UN Secretary-General António Guterres should invoke Article 99 of the UN Charter to flag a threat to peace. She said the UN Security Council should impose sanctions and deploy a peacekeeping force, adding that if this was blocked by a veto, the UN General Assembly should pass a "Uniting for Peace" resolution.
Report: Settlers attack Palestinian vehicles in West Bank Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Immanuel have attacked Palestinian vehicles east of the city of Qalqilia in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported. The settlers blocked the road connecting the Salfit and Qalqilia governorates and attacked several vehicles with stones and sticks. No injuries were reported.
Drop Site: Settlers establish outpost at site of deadly attack on Palestinian town Israeli settlers established a new outpost less than 24 hours after four Palestinians were killed and four others wounded in an attack on the town of Tel, southwest of Nablus, according to Drop Site News. Drop Site reported that a contractor, placed on the sanctioned list by the UK for violence against Palestinians, uprooted hundreds of olive trees at the site before settlers erected the outpost. The contractor was identified as Harel Libi.
Israeli journalist says provoking Palestinians part of settler expansion strategy A right-wing Israeli journalist and a settler activist have openly described provoking confrontations with Palestinians as a tactic to expand Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank. Speaking on a podcast hosted by settler activist Elisha Yered, journalist Tamir Dorstel said settlers deliberately "initiate friction" with Palestinians as part of a strategy to increase the Jewish presence in the occupied territory, according to Settlers From Within, which "tracks settlers' content and atrocities against Palestinians". Yered endorsed the remarks during the discussion, replying: "We are proud of it.
As international attention remains fixed on the Iran-US war and regional escalation, human rights advocates say Tehran is intensifying another campaign largely outside the global spotlight: the execution of protesters and political prisoners.
What next for the ICC and the Palestine investigation after Karim Khan's removal? Submitted by Sondos Asem on Sat, 07/25/2026 - 11:16 The court's removal of the chief prosecutor leaves it with a stalled Palestine file, two sanctioned deputies in charge, and facing an election to choose Khan's successor Then International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan in The Hague, Netherlands, 16 January 2025 (Reuters/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo) Off Member states of the International Criminal Court voted on Friday to remove chief prosecutor Karim Khan over misconduct claims, with 82 of the court's 125 members backing dismissal in a secret ballot at the United Nations in New York. It is the first time in the court's 24-year history that a sitting prosecutor has been removed, and it caps an 18-month disciplinary process that Palestinian rights groups, former judges and the prosecutor's lawyers have described as politicised.
Tehran [Iran], July 25 (ANI): Iran on Saturday slammed the European Union over its latest sanctions against Iranian officials over alleged human rights violations, accusing the bloc of hypocrisy and describing its approach as the 'banality of evil.
MAP warns Palestinians in Nablus facing 'existential threat', calls on UK to act Medical Aid for Palestinians has warned that Palestinians in Nablus are facing an "existential threat" following an overnight escalation in settler attacks and military raids, which also saw healthcare facilities targeted. Aseel Baidoun, MAP’s Deputy Director of Advocacy and Campaigns said that an Israeli military raid on Nablus Specialised Hospital marks an escalation in the violence, noting that patients were arrested while ambulances were barred from reaching wounded Palestinians. “These are not isolated incidents – they reflect a wider pattern of violence, intimidation, and obstruction that is putting Palestinian lives at increasing risk.
Why is Cair urging US Muslims to seek security from DHS? Submitted by Muneeza Rizvi on Fri, 06/26/2026 - 22:15 The grant push is only the latest in the civil rights group's decades of steering Muslims towards the institutions that surveil, entrap and deport them Police and officials brief the media after a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego on 18 May 2026 (Carlos A Moreno/Getty Images via AFP) Off Applications for this year's round of security grants from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) close on 24 July - and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) is urging mosques, Islamic schools and Muslim nonprofits to apply before the deadline. Since May's mosque shooting in San Diego, which killed three people, Cair has aggressively pursued renewed Muslim community access to this source of government funding, presenting it as a means of protecting mosques from such violence.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Esmaeil Baqaei castigated EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas for her hypocrisy on human rights, decrying the European Union for supporting US-Israeli attacks on Iran while remaining silent on war crimes against Iranian civilians.
HRW says ‘decisive’ action needed to stop settler reprisals Human Rights Watch has said that decisive international action is urgently needed to prevent escalating Israeli settler reprisals in the occupied West Bank. “The Israeli government didn’t prevent the settler attacks on Tal village, so now it needs to stop settler reprisals and escalating military action that will make a bad situation worse,” Sarah Sanbar, HRW Israel and Palestine researcher, said in a statement. “Years of lawlessness and impunity for attacks has turned the West Bank into a powder keg waiting to explode, and decisive action is urgently needed,” Sanbar added.
Former HRW chief says ICC Israel cases will proceed despite Khan row Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, has said that the International Criminal Court's cases against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant should proceed despite sexual misconduct allegations against ICC prosecutor Karim Khan. Writing on X, Roth said the Israeli government had "predictably" challenged the ICC proceedings by pointing to the allegations against Khan. “The charges were the product of a team of prosecutors, not just Khan, and approved by three ICC judges in the pretrial chamber,” Roth said.
Report: Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian-owned land in Nablus Israeli settlers have set fire to Palestinian-owned land near the Shavei Shomron settlement, northwest of Nablus, Drop Site reported. The settlement was built on land belonging to surrounding Palestinian villages and sits in an area where residents have faced repeated settler attacks and land seizures, the report added. The arson comes amid calls by rights groups to stop ‘pogroms’ in the West Bank.
HRW: Ben-Gvir’s crocodile-filled moat plan ‘cartoonishly cruel’ Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's plan for a crocodile-filled moat to guard a facility holding Palestinian detainees is cartoonishly cruel, Human Rights Watch has said. In a post on X, Sarah Sanbar, Acting Israel and Palestine Researcher, said: “Rather than investing millions in proposals “that amount to little more than performative cruelty”, the Israeli government should launch independent, transparent investigations into the documented allegations of torture and ill-treatment and prosecute those responsible, including at senior levels. ” Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's plan for a crocodile-filled moat to guard a facility holding Palestinian detainees is cartoonishly cruel.
Every 25 July, the International Day of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women reminds us that Black women do more than survive the crises surrounding them. They are also the ones sustaining life in the midst of them. In Haiti, Tina Nadine Anilus has spent more than fifteen years doing exactly that.
UN assembly approves four-year extension in mandate of rights chief The United Nations General Assembly on Friday voted overwhelmingly in favor to extend the term of UN Human Rights chief Volker Turk for four more years, despite opposition from Russia, Israel and the United States. A large majority in the 193-member General Assembly earlier voted against a Russian counter-proposal to extend Turk's term by just over two months to the end of 2026. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who has worked closely with Turk in the past and steps down in December, proposed the second four-year term for Turk when his existing term expires in October.
Israeli settler attack injures several Palestinians in West Bank's Surra Israeli settlers attacked and injured several Palestinians in the village of Surra, near Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian news sources. The settlers set homes, civilian vehicles, and agricultural lands on fire, the local reports said. The settlers withdrew after Palestinian residents confronted the attackers.
