In the first six months of 2023, the UN recorded 591 settler-related incidents resulting in Palestinian casualties, property damage, or both. This is a 39 per cent increase in the monthly average of such incidents when compared with 2022, already the highest number of settler-related incidents since the UN began recording such data in 2006, said the ...

Director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza, Thomas White, said the occupied territories face an environment full of challenges and complexities, including the presence of a military occupation which has been ongoing for more than 55 years.