An anti-settlement monitoring group says Israeli forces and illegal settlers carried out nearly 24,000 attacks in the occupied West Bank throughout 2025.

The Israeli military carried out nearly 100 violations against Palestinian journalists in December 2025, including killings, physical assaults, abductions, and bans on media coverage, according to a Palestinian journalists’ advocacy group.

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The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) says Israel abducted 42 Palestinian journalists, including eight women, in 2025, continuing a pattern of systemic targeting of Palestinian journalists.

The Palestinian education ministry says Israeli attacks across Gaza and the West Bank killed at least 7,488 Palestinian students and wounded 10,557 others during 2025.

Israeli officials have approved the construction of 126 settler units at the Sa-Nur settlement outpost in the northern West Bank, irrespective of the international outcry against the illegal settlement expansion activities.

Winter storms leave thousands of displaced Palestinians stuck in crowded refugee camps in occupied West Bank.