#West Bank

#West Bank

Israel's war in Gaza has created a human-made abyss, and reconstruction is likely to cost more than $70bn (53bn) over several decades, the United Nations has said. The UN's trade and development agency (Unctad) said in a report that Israel's military operations had significantly undermined every pillar of survival and that the entire population of 2.3 million people faced extreme, multidimensional impoverishment.

The Occupied Territories Bill must be passed before Christmas, the combined Opposition demanded at Leinster House today.

"It was an indescribable journey of suffering hunger, unfair treatment, oppression, torture and curses more than anything you could imagine," said Kamal Abu Shanab, a 51-year-old Fatah member from the West Bank town of Tulkarem. His face was gaunt. He said he lost 139 pounds (59 kilograms) in prison. "We don't recognize him. He's not the person we knew. Our uncle doesn't look like our uncle," said his niece, Farah Abu Shanab.

Dozens of people have been injured in an Israeli military raid on the Palestinian city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, according to medical sources. At least 80 people were wounded, including several who were hit with live ammunition, during the raid that began early on Wednesday, medical sources told Al Jazeera. The Palestine Red Crescent Society told Al Jazeera that its teams treated 36 people, including some who suffered tear gas inhalation.

Under this scenario, Russia would have military and economic control of occupied Ukraine under its own governing body, imitating Israel's de facto rule of Palestinian territory seized from Jordan in 1967.

"My family and I were forced out under gun threats, along with all the families of the village. We cried over our beautiful days there, and we are still crying. We are in shock because we never deserved this. We are peaceful people who love life, simple and educated people, and we never imagined leaving our home this way."

Moscow lodged a formal complaint with Israel over an attack by Israeli settlers on a Russian diplomatic vehicle near an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank.

Awdah Hathaleen, an English teacher and activist, was shot and killed allegedly by an Israeli settler in his village of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank.

Sayfollah Musallet, a Palestinian American, was killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on July 11, just days before his 21st birthday.

Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III and Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa denounced recent settler attacks, highlighting the lack of response from Israeli authorities to emergency calls from the Palestinian community.

"It is unacceptable that radical settlers are hunting down media professionals with impunity. This must not remain without consequences," said Federal Chairman Mika Beuster on Sunday.