The Israeli military said its forces killed a ‍Palestinian in the occupied ​West Bank in the early hours ‌on Thursday as ​they opened fire on people who were throwing stones at soldiers. Two other people were hit on a main road near the village of Luban ​al-Sharqiya in Nablus, the ⁠military statement added. It described the people as militants and said the ​stone-throwing was part ⁠of an ambush.

Palestinian authorities in the West Bank said a 26-year-old man they named ‌as Khattab Al Sarhan ‌was killed and another person wounded.

Israeli forces had closed ‍the main entrance to the village of Luban al-Sharqiya, in ‍Nablus, and blocked several secondary roads on Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA reported.

More than a thousand Palestinians were killed in the West Bank between October 2023 ⁠and October 2025, mostly in operations by security ​forces and some by settler ⁠violence, the U.N. has said.

Over the same period, 57 Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks.

The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of companies from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The new list spotlights companies that do business that’s deemed supportive of the settlements, which are considered by many to be illegal under international law. It includes an array of companies like vendors of construction materials and earth-movers, as well as providers of security, travel and financial services.

The list, formally known as a “database of companies,” now contains 158 companies — the vast majority Israeli. The others are from the United States, Canada, China, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Newcomers to the list include German building-materials company Heidelberg Materials, Portuguese rail systems provider Steconfer, and Spanish transportation engineering firm Ineco. Among those still on the list are travel-sector companies U.S.-based Expedia Group, Booking Holdings Inc. and Airbnb, Inc.

While 68 new companies were added on Friday (September 26, 2025), seven were taken off. A total of 215 business enterprises were assessed in this round, but hundreds more could get a look in the future.

The UN’s main human rights body passed a resolution nearly a decade ago to create the list, and Israel has sharply criticised it since. The revision could further isolate Israel at a time when some of its European allies have recognised an independent Palestinian state over Israel’s conduct of its war against Hamas in Gaza.