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An investigation found Israel conducted a coordinated campaign to enhance its image via Eurovision amid ongoing Gaza genocide, triggering calls to boycott the contest and to exclude Israeli participation.
Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced a plan to seize strategic areas in the occupied West Bank in response to EU sanctions on Israeli settlers and settler groups over increased violence against Palestinians. The EU sanctions target three settlers and four organizations, while some EU states call for further measures including tariffs on settlement products.
The European Union agreed to sanction Israeli settlers and settler organizations over violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, as well as senior figures of the Palestinian resistance movement, which condemned the move as hypocrisy and racism. The decision follows the lifting of a long-standing veto by Hungary’s new prime minister.
Israeli authorities expelled Father Louis Salman from Palestine after refusing to renew his residency following a prolonged security investigation. He conducted his final Mass in Beit Sahour before leaving for Jordan amid wide Palestinian condemnation, viewing the move as part of broader actions against Palestinian Christian clergy.
Amnesty International criticized the European Broadcasting Union for allowing Israel an international platform at Eurovision 2026 while it continues genocide, unlawful occupation, and apartheid against Palestinians, prompting Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands, and Iceland to withdraw in protest.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces compelled a Palestinian family to exhume their 80-year-old father’s body hours after burial amid attacks on the funeral and threats at the cemetery, aiming to seize land for settlement expansion.
