Two years after the International Court of Justice said Israel’s occupation of the West Bank was unlawful, settler violence and territorial annexation is “only getting worse,” the U.N. said July 29.

The United Nations continues to monitor developments in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amid rising violence and greater restrictions in the occupied West Bank.

A senior UN official expressed alarm Tuesday at the “rapidly deteriorating” situation in the occupied West Bank, denouncing the escalation of violence,