A planned “humanitarian city” inside Gaza intended to hold hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be a “concentration camp,” former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned.

Top church leaders in the Holy Land asserted Monday that Israeli authorities “facilitate and enable” the presence of Israeli settlers who have intensified attacks in recent weeks on the only entirely Christian Palestinian village remaining in the occupied West Bank.

The Efrat Regional Council said it is grieving the loss of Sgt. Shlomo Yakir Shrem, 20, who was killed alongside St.-Sgt. Shoham Menahem, 21, and Sgt. Yuliy Faktor, 19, during a brigade mission in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip,

A 20-year-old American was allegedly beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank, according to Palestinian health officials and his family.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett dismissed the allegations as part of "a vicious wave of slander."

Iran's Fars news agency claimed President Masoud Pezeshkian was targeted in an Israeli airstrike similar to one that killed Hezbollah leader Nasrallah.

Amos Guiora, a law professor at the University of Utah where he directs the Bystander Initiative, centered his pointed remarks on “enablers,” those in the Israeli government he sees as allowing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “abandon” those Hamas still holds captive.

Israeli settlers killed a 20-year-old Palestinian-American man in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and an eyewitness, as settler violence against Palestinians ramps up in the occupied territory.