The UN Security Council convened an emergency debate on the escalating crisis in the occupied West Bank (Palestinian territory under Israeli military control since 1967), with multiple member states and senior UN officials warning the situation is nearing a catastrophic threshold. UN Secretary-General António Guterres declared all Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, while Pakistan, the UK, and Russia each cautioned that unchecked settlement expansion and surging settler violence risked destroying prospects for a two-state solution and destabilising the broader region. UN relief agency OCHA reported that 1,122 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank between October 2023 and late July 2026, with at least 35 documented settler attacks recorded in a single week in late July.