Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Defense Minister Israel Katz touted that the groundwork has already been laid out.

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank town of Silwad declared a general strike after two residents were gunned down by Israeli forces during a wave of violent settler raids backed by the military.

A prominent Palestinian activist who had worked on an Oscar-winning documentary was killed on Monday during an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, according to local journalists and officials.