The State Attorney's Office said "the political echelon wishes to announce that, in accordance with the coalition agreements that were signed, it intends to act as soon as possible to amend the guidelines permitting Israelis to remain" and requested a further three months to submit another opinion.
[14][15] The US, the EU, the UK, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the UAE all condemned a visit to the Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa compound by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, citing the need to maintain the status quo and avoid increasing tension.
The US deputy UN ambassador, Robert Wood, told the council "We note that Prime Minister Netanyahu's governing platform calls for preservation of the status quo with relation to the holy places.
[70][71] The IDF stated that a 42-year-old Palestinian was shot dead due to the person attempting to stab an armed Israeli civilian at the illegal Sde Ephraim farm outpost near the town of Kafr Ni'ma.
Human rights organizations and diplomats applied pressure to prevent the move and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently requested Israel to cease home demolitions.
New National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir insists the authorities demolish East Jerusalem homes built without permits that are virtually impossible to obtain.
[130][137][138] Calling for an investigation, the US Office of Palestinian Affairs tweeted "We strongly condemn the shooting of Methkal Rayyan by an Israeli settler from the illegal Havat Yair outpost in Salfit".
[139] The Israeli military reported that a single rocket launched from the Gaza Strip towards southern Israel was successfully intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system.
[151][152][150] UN experts said "The international community must take action to stop systematic and deliberate housing demolition and sealing, arbitrary displacement and forced evictions of Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank".
[195][196][197][198] The settler rampage, likened to a pogrom,[199] affected many townships and villages across the West Bank, and led to the destruction by arson of over 100 cars, and 35 homes, with a further 40 others partially damaged, with Palestinian agricultural lands also torched.
[203][204][205] Israel and Palestinian officials meeting for the first time in years in Aqaba, Jordan, said they would work closely to prevent "further violence" and "reaffirmed the necessity of committing to de-escalation on the ground".
22 Israeli legal experts wrote to the attorney general to investigate pro-settler government MKs, including far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich, for "inducing war crimes" by their public support for the riots.
[262] Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, whilst speaking in Paris, openly denied the existence of the Palestinian ethnic group, claiming that they are 'an invention' of the past century.
The rocket struck an agricultural construction site near Shokeda, where the brothers were working in violation of IDF Home Front Command instructions, and there was no available bomb shelter for them to seek refuge.
[390] Israel declared that the killed laborer would be recognized as a victim of terror in a decision made by the defense minister and the National Insurance Institute, entitling his family to state benefits, including financial support for his widow and six children.
[406][407][408] The US said it was "deeply troubled" by a decision permitting Israelis to enter Homesh noting Israel's previous determination that the outpost was built illegally on private Palestinian land.
[413][414] At Ein Samiya near Ramallah, a Palestinian herding community of 178 people, including 78 children prepared to leave their homes, citing settler violence.The EU added their condemnation of the situation.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said he is "extremely worried by the situation" in Jenin, "including apparent executions by Israeli forces.
[499][500][501][502] In a military operation centered around the Jenin refugee camp, involving hundreds of troops and multiple drone strikes, Israeli forces killed at least eight Palestinians and injured dozens, some critically.
[539][540] A 19-year-old Palestinian was killed during clashes between Israeli troops and Nablus residents that broke out during a visit of thousands of Jewish worshipers, including Israel's police chief Kobi Shabtai, to Joseph's Tomb, heavily accompanied by security forces.
[555][556][557] For the third time as a cabinet member, far-right minister Itamar Ben Gvir made a provocative visit to Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa drawing condemnations from Palestinians, the US, the UK and the governments of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt.
[629][630][631][632] In a report to the UNSC,[633] Tor Wennesland said 2023 to date had seen the highest number of fatalities since 2005 and that "The lack of progress towards a political horizon that addressed the core issues driving the conflict has left a dangerous and volatile vacuum, filled by extremists on all sides.
[649][650][651] Groups like NGO Monitor claimed Human Rights Watch ignored "publicly available evidence of their terror affiliations" and "[failed] to condemn their participation in violent acts during the time of their death.
The man's cousin and the Palestinian Health Ministry stated he was uninvolved.The Israeli military conducted raids in several towns in the West Bank, including Nablus, arresting seven suspected militants.
[676][675] The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Washington-based media-monitoring group considered close to Israel, published an English translation of Palestinian President Abbas speech given on 24 August 2023 to senior Fatah officials.
[683][684] Reports by Haaretz and B'Tselem described the strip searching of five female members of a Palestinian family by two masked Israeli women soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron in July.
[698] A Palestinian 47-year-old man from Bethlehem area was shot and severely wounded by Israeli police after attempting to carry out a stabbing attack at the Mazmuria checkpoint near the Har Homa neighborhood of southern East Jerusalem.
Such messages are particularly damaging when amplified by those in leadership positions… President [Joe] Biden and Secretary [of State Antony] Blinken have been clear that both Israelis and Palestinians deserve to enjoy equal measures of freedom and security."
[753][754] UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, in a statement, said "I condemn today's attack by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property in the town of Huwara in occupied West Bank".
[929] The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said "While much attention has been on the (Hamas) attacks inside Israel and the escalation of hostilities in Gaza since the 7th of October, the situation in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is alarming and urgent".