TAYBEH, West Bank (Reuters) -Christian leaders accused Israeli settlers on Monday of attacking sacred sites in the West Bank, in violence that one said was forcing some to consider quitting the occupied territory.

Top church leaders in the Holy Land asserted Monday that Israeli authorities “facilitate and enable” the presence of Israeli settlers who have intensified attacks in recent weeks on the only entirely Christian Palestinian village remaining in the occupied West Bank.

An animal control officer found the small brown dog dead inside a wire crate that had been left in direct sunlight all day with no food or water.

"It is impacting several refugee camps in the area, and it is causing the largest population displacement of the Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967," she told reporters in Geneva via video from Jordan, referring to the six-day Arab-Israeli war that led to Israel's occupation of the West Bank.

More than 18,000 people arrested by Israeli army in West Bank since October 2023, prisoners affairs’ groups say - Anadolu Ajansı