Extremist settlers and some soldiers, driven by religious ideology, carry out ongoing violence against Palestinians in the West Bank amid limited international response.

“Israel’s” military campaign in southern Lebanon is presented as involving mass displacement, demographic change, sectarian pressure, and emerging settlement efforts aimed at turning the area into a controlled buffer zone.

With Gaza still lying in the ruins of a devastating war and Israeli Occupation raids and settlement attacks intensifying across the West Bank, Palestinian municipal ballot boxes are set to open on April 25, 2026.

“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.

During Ramadan 2026, “Israel” intensified control over al-Aqsa and Jerusalem, restricting Palestinians and advancing settlement expansion.