UN Reports Nearly 40,000 Palestinians Displaced in West Bank Since Start of 2025

He said Israeli actions, including ongoing demolitions, continue to drive displacement. In the first week of May alone, demolitions carried out by Israeli settlers displaced 42 Palestinians, including 24 children. Israeli forces and armed settlers have carried out sustained attacks across West Bank cities under military protection, the UN said.

Israeli settlers forced a Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank to dig up their father's body and rebury him elsewhere near Jenin. Hussein Asasa, 80, died on Friday of natural causes and was buried the same evening in his village cemetery, with permits approved by the Israeli military, according to his family.

But soon after the burial, settlers arrived at the grave and demanded it be removed, saying the land was for settlement and that burial was not allowed. The family told Reuters that the site was the village cemetery, not part of any settlement. After the settlers threatened to use a bulldozer to tear up the grave, the family exhumed the body themselves.

Video shared online and verified by Reuters as showing Asasa village appears to depict settlers overseeing the scene as Palestinians dug into the earth on a hillside, with Israeli soldiers present as the body was carried away.

Bahrain announced the arrest of 41 people accused of belonging to a group linked to Iranian forces. Kuwait expressed solidarity with Bahrain and voiced support after Manama's announcement, commending the efficiency of the Bahraini security apparatus.

A senior Iranian lawmaker, Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of the national security and foreign policy committee in the Iranian parliament, warned Bahrain of severe consequences for aligning with a U.S.-backed resolution concerning the Strait of Hormuz. In Lebanon, the Israeli army launched multiple raids that killed at least 18 people despite a three-week ceasefire, according to local reports.

The army also issued forced displacement orders in nine towns and villages in southern Lebanon. Three Israeli soldiers were wounded after a Hezbollah drone detonated in northern Israel near the Lebanese border.