{"id":246029,"date":"2026-08-12T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/246029\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:51:08","slug":"west-bank-settlements-not-going-anywhere-israeli-envoy-tells-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/246029\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bank settlements \u2018not going anywhere,\u2019 Israeli envoy tells UN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014 i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) August 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

The session was called by the so-called E5 nations –\u00a0Denmark, France, Greece, Latvia, and the UK \u2013\u00a0to discuss the issue of Israeli settlements and the upward trend in settler violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Danon, however, rejected the latter aspect entirely, suggesting the council was enforcing double standards on the Jewish State.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis May, there were 348 Palestinian terrorist attacks in [the West Bank]. Eight pipe bomb attacks, 282 stone-throwing incidents, 32 fire bomb attacks, 24 arson incidents and two serious car ramming attacks,\u201d he said, claiming that 400 more attacks were prevented by Israeli security forces.<\/p>\n

“How many of you have condemned these terrorist attacks against Jews?\u201d he went on.<\/p>\n

“None of these numbers were reported by the briefers, and none of these attacks were mentioned by any of you.<\/p>\n

“This is the bias we are confronting today.\u201d<\/p>\n

And he insisted that Israel was cracking down on the issue of settler attacks<\/a> against Palestinians,\u00a0with 354 investigations opened, 20 indictments filed, and 35 residents arrested through the first quarter of this year.<\/p>\n

“This has led to a decrease in extremist violence,\u201d he added. \u201cThat is why calling it \u2018settler violence\u2019 is a provocation.<\/p>\n

“It denies our connection to the land of Israel. It distracts from constant terrorist attacks against Israelis, and it collectively labels entire innocent communities for the crimes of the marginal extremist minority.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest annual IDF figures<\/a> show that settler violence\u00a0increased by almost a third in 2025, while a total of 57 Palestinian terror attacks were recorded last year, resulting in 20 deaths, down from\u00a0258 attacks resulting in 35 deaths in 2024 and 847 attacks leading to 41 deaths the year before.<\/p>\n

Per the report, the Shin Bet believes that the majority of settler attacks are carried out by a group of around 300 extremist settlers, 70 of whom are thought to make up a \u201chardcore\u201d bloc responsible for more severe violence.<\/p>\n

Officials believe that most of the 300 assailants are spread across 42 \u201coutposts\u201d \u2013 settlements considered illegal under Israeli law in addition to international law \u2013 and many are officially registered as living in Israel rather than in the territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2014 i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) August 12, 2026 The session was called by the so-called E5 nations –\u00a0Denmark, France,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[37,14924,11207,1243,6905],"class_list":["post-246029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-israel","tag-settlements","tag-settlers","tag-united-nations","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}