An illegal Israeli settler has fatally shot a Palestinian youth on suspicion of attempting to carry out an alleged stabbing attack in the south of the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), the latest amid rising violence in the occupied territories.

“Blowing up the homes of heroes of resistance forces by Zionist occupiers is a crime that reflects their bankruptcy.”

Israeli forces have demolished the house of Muhammed Kamel al-Jabari, who carried out a shooting operation in the occupied West Bank a few months ago.

The Israeli police open an investigation into a sexual assault complaint filed by a woman against a high-ranking ultra-conservative rabbi in the southern occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil.

A group of extremist Israeli settlers have vandalized a number of Palestinian-owned vehicles and assaulted local residents in the south of the occupied West Bank.

In a second letter in a week, fifteen members of the US Congress urge the Secretary of State to take immediate action to stop the Israeli regime's "war crime", appropriation of Palestinian land and forcibly expelling its more than 1,000 residents from their homes in the occupied West Bank territory.

A senior Palestinian minister says Israel’s forcible displacement of Palestinians crime against humanity.