Palestine – Security Situation – EU ECHO Daily Flash (Non-UN Document)

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• Serious concerns at the deteriorating security situation in Israel and across the West Bank ahead of Ramadan. The resurgence of domestic Jihadi-inspired terrorist attacks, claimed by ISIS, which resulted in 6 casualties in less than a week, risks triggering another round of hostilities which might potentially turn into larger-scale communal riots as happened in May 2021 during the 10-day escalation with Hamas.

• 29 March night’s attack near Tel Aviv, which killed 5 Israelis raises tensions further. This trend, along with continued settlers attacks and construction of illegal outposts in a climate of total impunity – on 26 March, a group of settlers occupied a hotel in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem’s old city – provides bleak prospects for the period to come. DG ECHO staff in the field have raised the level of alert.