Israeli forces are continuing violent raids on Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank. On Sunday, residents of Hebron held a general strike to protest the killing of two Palestinians by Israeli forces a day earlier. Separately, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian in the town of Azzun on Sunday. The violence came as Israeli media reported Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has set aside approximately more than $830 million to fund 17 new settlements in the occupied West Bank over the next five years.

Meanwhile, human rights groups are expressing “grave concerns” about the fate of jailed Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti, after his son said he’d received news that his father had been severely beaten and tortured by Israeli prison guards, leaving him “physically shattered.”