Overnight funerals were held for four Palestinians killed near Nablus. HRW says ‘decisive’ action needed to stop settler reprisals Human Rights Watch has said that decisive international action is urgently needed to prevent escalating Israeli settler reprisals in the occupied West Bank. “The Israeli government didn’t prevent the settler attacks on Tal village, so now it needs to stop settler reprisals and escalating military action that will make a bad situation worse,” Sarah Sanbar, HRW Israel and Palestine researcher, said in a statement.
“Years of lawlessness and impunity for attacks has turned the West Bank into a powder keg waiting to explode, and decisive action is urgently needed,” Sanbar added. Four Palestinians were killed while fending off a settler raid in the West Bank village of Tell on Friday. A Palestinian firefighter and a resident douse a fire after a tent was torched by Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Sarra, West Bank, on 24 July 2026.
Officials have long lobbied for peak that rises 2,918 metres above sea level to be given coveted designationMore than four decades have elapsed since Evangelos Geroliolios made his first ascent to the home of the ancient gods. At the top of Mount Olympus, on the rocky peak of Greece’s highest mountain, he felt unalloyed awe.“I’ve never forgotten that unique moment, that unique feeling up there on the throne of Zeus,” recalled Geroliolios, who as mayor of Dion-Olympus now spends a great deal of his time administering the area around the site. Unesco adds West Bank site to endangered list despite Israeli objections The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) has added the archaeological site of Sebastia in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to both the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger.
The nomination was made despite objections from Israel, which had urged the committee to reject the bids, during a meeting in South Korea's Busan, after reviewing the nomination on an emergency basis, citing ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. The committee also decided to place five castles in Lebanon’s Mount Amel area on the lists. It said the castles in Lebanon date from the medieval period to the 19th century and “illustrate successive phases of occupation and adaptation by Crusader, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman, and local feudal rulers”.
New inscription on the @UNESCO #WorldHeritage List & on the List of World Heritage in Danger: Sebastia, #StateofPalestine 🇵🇸. ➡️ https://t.co/iO4B0Cjg9u #48WHC pic.twitter.com/49L9eTwzrn — UNESCO (@UNESCO) July 24, 2026
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