Israeli forces increasingly killing, injuring children in occupied West Bank since Gaza war, warns UN
Since the onset of Israel’s brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli military’s use of live ammunition to kill and wound Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank has significantly increased compared to the previous 10 months, the United Nations warns.
In its Humanitarian Situation Update about the West Bank, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Wednesday that the number of Palestinian children killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied territory since October 7 stood at 115.
This is while the number of children killed by Israeli live fire in the West Bank in the previous 10 months up to October stood at 39, it added.
Furthermore, the number of Palestinian children injured by Israeli live fire in the occupied territory has also doubled during the reporting period, with 1,411 children wounded by bullets since October 7, compared to 615 during the preceding 10 months.
The OCHA has also documented 1,250 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians since October, including around 120 settler assaults that resulted in Palestinian deaths and injuries.
According to a UN report, in an attack on August 12, Israeli settlers armed with knives kidnapped two 15-year-old Palestinian shepherds and forced them into a newly established Israeli outpost settlement near Khallet an Nahala, where they “assaulted the boys, broke their legs, and urinated on them.”
“Afterwards, the settlers handcuffed the boys, put them in a vehicle and threw them in an open area” where they were later found, the UN said.
Since Israel unleashed a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in on October 7 last year, casualties have been rising in the West Bank as a result of intensified near-daily raids by the regime troops into Palestinian towns.
A total of 624 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces since the beginning of Israel’s Gaza onslaught.
Nearly 40,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have also been killed in Israeli attacks across the besieged Gaza in the past more than 10 months.
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