Over a dozen NGOs and the Attorney-General’s Office went up against the government on Sunday to convince the High Court of Justice to strike down the Settlements Regulations Law, in what some are calling the biggest case in decades.

While Israel cannot approve the construction of Israeli homes on land, [that] is still technically under Palestinian ownership, Israeli NGO Kerem Navot says that settlers have found other ways to exploit seemingly abandoned fields to their benefit.

Settler violence is par for the course for Palestinians in the West Bank. When a Palestinian woman leaves her house in the morning, she might find her car’s tires have been slashed. When a Palestinian farmer goes out to his land, he might find his olive grove vandalized or his sheep slaughtered. In April 2018 alone, B’Tselem documented 14 settler assaults across the West Bank.

European banks continue to have financial relationships with Israeli banks that are involved in the Israeli settlement industry.

An Israeli sniper shot and killed medical volunteer Razan al-Najjar as she tried to evacuate a wounded protester.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday ordered Israel to withhold funds from the Palestinian Authority, in order to compensate farmers living on the Gaza border who have had their crops destroyed by massive fires sparked by flaming kites sent from the Palestinian enclave.

The United States vetoed on Friday a Kuwait-drafted UN Security Council resolution that condemned Israel’s use of force against Palestinian civilians, criticizing it as a “grossly one-sided” view that failed to blame Hamas for the recent violence.

The US envoy discussed Israel as a partisan cause, Trump’s peace plan, settlement legality, Palestinian refugees, and a pastor who invoked Jesus at the Jerusalem embassy opening.

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attacked the media on Monday over what he said was a failure to fairly cover deadly protests on the Gaza border over the past months, advising reporters to “keep your mouths shut” unless they know better than Israel how to deal with the demonstrations.

President Donald Trump is considering giving U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman more authority  over the State Department’s eastern Jerusalem office that handles Palestinian affairs, U.S. officials said.