U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres criticized Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and called for the establishment of a Palestinian state in a statement marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War.

As long as police continue to see Palestinian citizens of Israel as ‘the enemy,’ the deadly shootings — and the ever-deepening crisis in relations — will continue.

Each decade of the occupation has brought changing fortunes to prospects for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and varying levels of opposition to Israel’s military rule. After half a century, could there finally be a proposal that stands a chance?

Settlement construction is not being restricted to the large settlement blocs but is being carried out according to guidelines set by the security cabinet some two months ago, sources close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday night aboard his plane back from Liberia.

“Each decade of the occupation has brought changing fortunes to prospects for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and varying levels of opposition to Israel’s military rule. After half a century, could there finally be a proposal that stands a chance?” asks Dahlia Scheindlin.

“Between the Jordan Valley and the Mediterranean Sea there is only one real sovereign—and it’s an apartheid regime,” writes Neve Gordon.

Marking fifty years since the outbreak of the Six Day War, the US Senate on Monday passed a resolution celebrating Jerusalem as Israel’s “undivided” capital and calling on the Trump administration to move the US embassy there.

“Failing to renew the waiver authority would have been one of the dumbest foreign-policy moves that the administration could have made in its first five months,” writes Daniel DePetris.

During a closed conversation with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said that Israeli policies during the most recent wave of violence helped prevent a third intifada, or uprising, Israeli Channel 2 reported Monday.

Despite the legal issues that emerged in the prosecution of three men convicted of killing a Hamas military commander, Hamas carried out their execution in a matter of days of the trial’s conclusion.