Rights group: Israeli settlers are exploiting media attention on Gaza to seize land in West Bank

Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem told the BBC that since the start of the war on 7 October, it had documented "a concerted and organised effort by settlers to use the fact that the entire international and local attention is focused on Gaza and the north of Israel to try to seize land in the West Bank".

According to data compiled by the rights group, covering the first six days following the start of the war, they recorded at least 46 separate incidents in which it said settlers threatened, physically attacked or damaged the property of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

"A lot of shepherding families and communities have fled because they were threatened in the past week by settlers," said Roy Yellin, a spokesman for B'Tselem told the BBC.

"Settlers have been giving residents a deadline to leave and telling them if they don't they will be harmed. And some villages have been totally emptied out."