Israeli bulldozers tore down dozens of Palestinian shops on the edge of a town southeast of Jerusalem this week, clearing land ahead of a settlement-linked road project in the occupied West Bank.

“Israel” has resumed registering vast areas of the West Bank as its own territory, a move the United Nations and many countries consider a dangerous escalation that undermines the two-state solution.

The extremist Israeli government is exploiting the wartime environment and declining international scrutiny to consolidate control over strategic areas of the occupied West Bank.

Since October 7, 2023 the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI services from Microsoft, while the tech giant’s staff is embedded with different units to support rollout.

Despite the warm ties between "Israel" and the U.S., the recent diplomatic tension over evangelical Christian visas coincided with an Israeli airstrike that hit Gaza’s only Catholic church.