Surge in the Number of Settlers Touring Haram al-Sharif in 2019

An attempted assassination targeted Islamic Jihad leader Akram al-Ajouri in Damascus; the attack also put others in the area at risk.

An Israeli air strike killed Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata in Gaza City, contributing to a renewed round of fighting.

Israeli authorities announced plans intended to double the settler population in Hebron, where Palestinian residents face restrictions on movement.

The US Congress amended the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act to permit a resumption of American aid for Palestinian Authority security forces.

PalQuest’s year-end assessment describes the continued construction and expansion of Israeli settlements during the third year of the Trump administration.

The Trump administration presented a plan for the Israeli–Palestinian conflict that would allow Israeli annexation of settlement areas and offered Palestinians a highly conditional form of statehood.

The UN Human Rights Office published a database of businesses involved in specified activities connected to Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory.

Israel’s Supreme Court struck down a 2017 law that had sought to legalize certain West Bank settlement outposts retroactively on privately owned Palestinian land.

The European Union attached an anti-terrorism clause to grants for Palestinian civil society organizations; Palestinian groups objected to its implications for their work.

Officials of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Israel signed normalization agreements in Washington. Palestinian leaders criticized agreements reached without securing Palestinian...