内容摘要：He said: "The committee is clear that there also appears to have been a serious lack of oversight from the Scottish government.

He said: "The committee is clear that there also appears to have been a serious lack of oversight from the Scottish government.

Extremists in Israel’s government boast that these changes will prevent an independent Palestinian state from ever being created.There are fears, too, that they seek to prolong the war in Gaza to suit their goals.

Yonatan Mizrahi from Peace Now, an Israeli organisation that monitors settlement growth, believes a “mix of rage and fear” in Israeli society after the 7 October attacks, in which 1,200 people were killed, is driving settlers to seize more land, with fewer people questioning them.by the Pew Research Center suggested that 40% of Israelis believed settlements made the country safer, up from 27% in 2013. Meanwhile, 35% of people polled said that the settlements hurt Israel’s security, down from 42%.Mr Mizrahi worries that Jewish extremists in the West Bank are exacerbating an already tense and volatile situation, making it harder than ever to end the Israel-Palestinian conflict. “I think it’s extremely dangerous,” he says. “It’s increasing the hate on both sides.”

Since the outbreak of the war, settler violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank has surged.It had already been on the rise, but in the past 10 months

around 1,270 attacks,

According to the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, during the same period Israeli settler harassment has forced Palestinians out ofunder the Health and Safety at Work Act and fined £1.5m in relation to 11 deaths at the Linden Centre and other settings, then operated by the North Essex Partnership between 2004 and 2015.

The prosecution said the existence of "fixed potential ligature points" amounted to breaches of safety laws.In his sentencing remarks, Mr Justice Cavanagh wrote: "At the heart of this case are a number of interconnected failures by the trust."

Both Matthew and Ben's cases featured in the prosecution and EPUT's chief executive Paul Scott apologised, stating it was committed to learning lessons.The proceedings are getting under way after the