World News in Brief: Updates from Gaza, the West Bank and Afghanistan, UN development reforms, change at the top of WFP

Key Takeaways

• It comes as the agency that supports Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, reported a surge in military activity in recent weeks across the Strip, that’s caused increasing casualties and displacement.
• “By God, we are very afraid and we keep sheltering inside the house,” said Ahmed Talal, who lives in the al-Shaaf area of al-Zeitoun, just 100 metres from the line which marks the area of Israeli control.
• He described “heavy gunfire” from tanks, while “bullets hit the upper part of our house.” Talal’s family have been displaced from their neighbourhood 12 times – and the last time they were uprooted, they were homeless for more than six months.
• ‘Settler terror’ escalating, warn independent human rights experts Tweet URL UN independent experts on Monday warned of escalating Israeli settler violence across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.
• The Human Rights Council-appointed group of 13 Special Rapporteurs said the attacks were increasingly driving the displacement of Palestinian communities.