Journalists, protesters and local Palestinian landowners, who say some of their land was taken for the newly built Mount Tarousa settlement (background), run from tear gas fired by Israeli security forces blocking a road leading to the hilltop during a rally against the settlement near Dura in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on June 19, 2026. Excluding east Jerusalem, more than 500,000 Israelis live in settlements in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, among some three million Palestinians. All Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. The United Nations recently warned that settler violence in the West Bank had reached record levels, with an average of six attacks daily causing casualties or damage. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP)