Palestinian director Basel Adra, who won an Oscar this year for co-directing a documentary on Israeli violence in the West Bank, sounded the alarm at the UN on Thursday, saying the situation was worsening despite the film's success.

Gaza Israel's plan for its military to create a new line of control across southern Gaza, known as the Morag corridor, would not only cut off access to two of the Palestinian territory's three main crossing points for people and goods,

Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government, the most right-wing in Israel’s history, is methodically expanding the network of Israeli settlements in the West Bank at a blistering pace, deliberately foreclosing the increasingly remote possibility of a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

We cannot continue to write a blank check to an increasingly authoritarian regime,” the Dem mayoral hopeful said at the time.

Overnight strikes by Israel killed at least 55 people across the Gaza Strip, hospital officials said Thursday, a day after senior government officials said Israel would seize large areas of Gaza and establish a new security corridor across the Palestinian territory.

Israel's security cabinet approved a plan to separate 13 Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank from their neighbouring communities, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Sunday.

On Saturday night, the Netanyahu government advanced Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s proposal to legitimize more settlements by approving the splitting of 13 Judea and Samaria municipalities, granting the offshoots official recognition as independent settlements.

A top official said “large areas” of the enclave would be seized, suggesting that Israel intended to hold on to more territory.

Israel has proposed an extended truce in Gaza in exchange for the return of about half the remaining hostages, Israeli officials said.