The UN rights chief demands an end to surging violence in the West Bank, saying it is “unfathomable” that more than 500 Palestinians had been killed there since October 7.
“As if the tragic events in Israel and then Gaza over the past eight months were not enough, the people of the occupied West Bank are also being subjected to day-after-day of unprecedented bloodshed,” Volker Turk says in a statement.
“It is unfathomable that so many lives have been taken in such a wanton fashion.”
Since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught that started the Gaza war, troops have arrested some 4,000 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,700 affiliated with Hamas. According to the PA health ministry, more than 510 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time.
Based on military estimates, the vast majority of those killed since October 7 were shot during violent clashes amid arrest raids.
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