Israel must stop 'unprecedented bloodshed' in West Bank: UN
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk has reiterated calls for an end to Israel’s violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Turk said it was "unfathomable" that more than 500 Palestinians had been killed there since October 7, the day Israel launched its bloodiest ever military campaign in nearby Gaza.
In addition to the death toll in the Gaza Strip, Turk said, “the people of the occupied West Bank are also being subjected to day after day of unprecedented bloodshed.”
Turk pointed to cases over the weekend in which Israeli forces shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian boy and critically wounded another 17-year-old, who died a day later, near the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in Jericho.
He said CCTV footage indicated that the boys were shot at a distance of 70 meters while running away.
Turk said the regime's forces had often used lethal force "as a first resort against Palestinian protesters ... in cases where those shot clearly did not represent an imminent threat to life."
The UN rights chief also decried the "pervasive impunity for such crimes" in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967.
Palestinian officials have given a death toll of at least 523 in the territory since October.
A tally by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society records the kidnapping of 9,025 people in the same period, including 300 women and 635 children.
Those who have been released have reported being tortured and abused while they were detained by the regime’s forces.
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