Lauren Frayer

Because we share waters, we share a strategic environment.

And they share fears of Russian attack, he said.

British officials say incursions by Russian submarines into these waters have jumped 30 percent in the past two years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.

Several busloads of volunteers were trying to reach the Israeli-occupied Palestinian village of Boreen.

Their plan was to act as human shields to protect Palestinian farmers from Israeli settler attacks, which have hit a record high, according to the U.N.

This week, settlers ransacked the West Bank's biggest dairy farm and also torched a mosque.

Lior Amichai, director of Peace Now and advocacy groups, sent NPR this voice memo from a checkpoint where Israeli soldiers blocked their passage to Borin.

The Israeli military tells NPR it did this for public safety after a week marred by an increase in violent incidents.

Lauren Fryer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

Israel now controls roughly half of Gaza, the eastern side.

And that's where the U.N.

says Israeli troops are behind daily detonations of residential buildings.

Based on satellite imagery, the BBC says more than 1,500 buildings have been destroyed since a ceasefire more than a month ago.

NPR can't independently verify that number.

The U.N.

says more than 280,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed since the war began.

It also says Palestinians' access to humanitarian aid, public infrastructure and agricultural land all remain restricted or barred altogether.

The Israeli military says it's dismantled underground infrastructure, tunnels used by militants, but did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment about residential buildings.

Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.