The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights warns that “the intensity of violence and repression is something we have not seen in years.”
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, warned on Thursday of the “rapid deterioration” of the human rights situation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since October 7, the date of the Movement’s attacks on Israel. of Islamic Resistance (Hamas), and has called on Israel to “end extrajudicial killings and settler violence” against the Palestinian population.
The report published today by the UN calls for “the immediate end to the use of weapons and military assets in security operations, the end of arbitrary detentions and abuse of Palestinians and the repeal of discriminatory restrictions on movement.”
For example, he emphasized that the deaths of 300 Palestinians, including 79 children, between October 7 and December 27 in the West Bank and East Jerusalem have so far been verified. Of this number, 291 Palestinians were killed by security forces, while eight were killed in attacks by settlers. One Palestinian was killed “at the hands of Israeli forces or settlers.”
Before October 7, 200 Palestinians had been killed in the area in 2023, the highest number in a 10-month period since the UN began keeping such data in 2005, reflecting the spike in violence in the area. carried out by the Palestinian Islamic group.
“The violations documented in this report repeat the pattern and nature of violations recorded in the past, in the context of a long Israeli occupation of the West Bank,” Turk said, emphasizing that “the intensity of violence and repression, however, is something we have not seen for years.”
Source: EITB
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