French MEP visits West Bank to investigate breaches of international law
Manon Aubry, cochairwoman of The Left group in the European Parliament, is currently in the West Bank to document what she describes as violations of international law.
In a post on X, the French MEP from La France Insoumise party said that while “genocide” continues in Gaza, colonisation is intensifying in the West Bank through “stolen lands, settler violence and a suffocated economy”.
Her trip comes as attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians have surged, reaching a monthly record of 264 incidents in October, the highest since the UN began recording them in 2006.
“Europe must open its eyes and act,” Aubry said.
Rights group warns new settler outpost in Anata, occupied West Bank
Israeli settlers have begun establishing a new outpost on Palestinian land in the town of Anata, east of occupied East Jerusalem, the Bedouin rights group Al-Baidar said.
The group said the settlers started installing temporary structures and laying foundations for makeshift homes. The organisation warned that the move could lead to the displacement of Bedouin communities northeast of Jerusalem and restrict Palestinian access to their lands and pastures, which they rely on for grazing and agriculture.
Since the start of the war in October 2023, the number of outposts established each year has sharply increased, according to settlement watchdog Peace Now. In 2025, at least 68 new outposts have been set up, compared with seven in 2022.
Israeli forces shoot Palestinian man near Jerusalem
A 21-year-old Palestinian man has been shot by Israeli soldiers as he tried to cross the separation barrier near ar-Ram, northeast of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.
The incident happened in the Dahiyat al-Barid area.
Palestine Red Crescent Society medics treated him at the scene before rushing him to hospital with wounds to his chest and shoulder.
Many Palestinians work in Israel due to a lack of opportunity in the West Bank, but since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Israel has issued fewer work permits, forcing some to try to scale the wall.
In June, Shaher Saad, the secretary-general of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, told Al Jazeera: “Decades of high unemployment have left thousands with no choice” but to take the risk.
At that time, Saad said 35 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli forces while attempting the crossing.
Israeli forces arrest 442 Palestinians in October, including 33 children: Rights groups
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association have released these figures in a joint statement.
Rights groups and even the US State Department have accused Israel of frequently making arbitrary detentions of Palestinians, keeping people locked up for years in some cases without trials or charges.
As of April this year, an estimated 10,000 Palestinians were being held in Israeli jails.
