Palestinian media reports that 13 Palestinians were injured in a settler attack last night in the South Hebron Hills, in the southern West Bank. According to the reports, several settlers entered the village of Khallet al-Daba and assaulted residents, some of them with pepper spray. Thirteen residents were reportedly injured, including an infant.

While dodging the question regarding Washington’s stance on the controversial move during a press conference in Ecuador, Rubio claims the US predicted that Israel would take such steps in response to Western countries recognizing the state of Palestine.

Israel has cleared the way to build a controversial new settlement in the occupied West Bank, a move that has been condemned as the death knell for a future Palestinian state.

Abdallah Arara has raised 11 children and worked 400 head of sheep on the same plot of land five miles east of Jerusalem for most of the past 45 years. His parents arrived in the early 1950s after Israeli troops forced them out of the Negev,