Israel has issued a military order to seize more than 6,000 hectares of land near the Palestinian town of Yabad in the northern West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency. The land, owned by residents of Zabda village in the Jenin governorate, has been designated for military use until the end of 2028.

Saleh Amarna, head of the Zabda village council, said the council plans to challenge the order through legal channels in an effort to overturn it. Israeli military orders, in place since the occupation of the West Bank in 1967, grant broad executive and legislative authority over land, movement, and construction.

In a separate incident, Israeli settlers reportedly forced a Bedouin family to leave their home near Al-Auja, north of Jericho, following repeated attacks and intimidation. Meanwhile, foreign ministers from the European Union agreed to impose new sanctions on Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, where hundreds of thousands of settlers live in settlements and outposts.