Settlers Attack Palestinians, Enter Al-Aqsa Compound

Reports described escalating Israeli settler activity and violence in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. In separate West Bank incidents, settlers attacked Jewish and Arab activists accompanying Palestinian farmers near Bethlehem, while Palestinian officials said settlers shot two men in Yasuf, killing one; other reported actions included olive theft, raids and the seizure of a family home by Israeli forces. During the Sukkot holiday, hundreds of Israeli settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under police protection, with reports of religious rituals there. Egypt and the Arab League condemned the visits, warning they could undermine the compound’s longstanding status quo and heighten regional tensions; Israel says it remains committed to that arrangement. The reports also place the incidents amid broader disputes over settlement expansion, Palestinian access and the status of the occupied territories.