Rising Israeli settler violence and restrictions by both Israeli Occupation Forces and the Palestinian Authority have led Palestinians to revive local guard committees as a form of community self-defense in the West Bank.

The Israeli Knesset recently passed a law imposing the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks, a measure sharply criticised as discriminatory by European countries and rights groups.

At the age of 100, Walid Khalidi, the Palestinian historian from occupied Jerusalem, died on March 8, 2026, after a long intellectual journey that helped rebuild Palestinian memory on rigorous academic foundations and challenged dominant Zionist narratives of the 1948 Nakba.

“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.

Senegalese artists, intellectuals, and civil society are intensifying popular pressure to cut ties with “Israel” over Gaza, as Senegal maintains its diplomatic support for Palestinian rights at the UN.