Israeli settlers force Palestinian family to exhume their father
Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank forced a Palestinian family to dig up their father's grave and rebury him elsewhere. The United Nations called the confrontation 'appalling and emblematic of the dehumanisation of Palestinians'.
The incident took place on Thursday morning outside Beit Furik, north-east of Nablus. Settlers told the family the grave fell within the boundaries of an expansion plan they themselves had approved, and gave 24 hours to move it before construction would begin.
The Israeli military did not intervene. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has logged 1,247 settler attacks since the start of the year, already exceeding the entire 2025 total. The Netherlands and Ireland are circulating a draft EU sanctions list targeting individuals involved in settler violence.
US-Israel aid talks have grown tenser. The White House proposed yesterday tying part of a 4.2-billion-dollar military package to steps strengthening the Palestinian Authority. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the suggestion 'absolutely unacceptable'.
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