# Palestinians question UN role as Israeli settlement expansion continues

https://mins.news/en/video/72381

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-09-24 13:22 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CisJDhbX80A

> As UN leaders gather in New York, Israeli forces have closed an UNRWA school and taken over its headquarters in East Jerusalem, challenging UN protections. Settler numbers in the occupied West Bank have risen from fewer than 30,000 in 1980 to nearly 800,000 today. The proposed E1 project could divide the territory and displace Bedouin communities, while UN resolutions and an ICJ ruling that Israel’s occupation is illegal remain unenforced.

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