Israel has given final approval for a controversial settlement project that would effectively cut the occupied West Bank in two.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which organized the "Israel on Hold” protests, said that over a million people took part in the demonstrations across the country on Sunday. Per the organization, almost 500,000 protesters gathered in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square.

Shahed Ghoreishi recommended expressing condolences for slain journalists in Gaza and opposing the forced displacement of Palestinians. He was fired days later.

The long-stalled project near Jerusalem, known as E1, further fragments lands envisioned as a Palestinian state, advancing a goal of Israeli hard-liners.

Israel on Wednesday gave final approval for a long-disputed settlement project in the occupied West Bank, a move that Palestinians and rights groups warn could split the territory in two and deal a devastating blow to prospects for a future Palestinian state.

Israel plans to buy two Boeing-made KC-46 military aerial refuelling tankers in a $500 million deal to be financed with U.S. military aid, the Israeli defence ministry said on Wednesday.

The Italian Soccer Coaches’ Association is calling for Israel to be suspended from international competition due to the war in Gaza.

In the world of antisemitism, “libel” refers to all of those antisemitic tropes by which Jews were charged with horrible things, whether it was the deliberate and gleeful ritual killing of non-Jewish children, or the accusation that Jews manipulated foreign governments, controlled the press, and ultimately strove to control the world.