UN rights chief condemns ‘unprecedented bloodshed’ in occupied West Financial institution | Israel-Palestine battle Information

Israeli forces kill, injure and arrest many Palestinians on daily basis throughout quite a few raids within the occupied territory.

The United Nations has renewed its name for an finish to violence in opposition to Palestinians within the occupied West Financial institution.

Volker Turk mentioned in an announcement launched on Tuesday that along with the loss of life toll within the Gaza Strip, “the individuals of the occupied West Financial institution are additionally being subjected to day after day of unprecedented bloodshed”. The UN human rights chief’s phrases got here because the Israeli army and settlers carried out new assaults within the territory.

“Pervasive impunity for such crimes has been commonplace for a lot too lengthy within the occupied West Financial institution,” he mentioned, including that this has created an surroundings for extra “illegal killings” by Israeli forces.

In accordance with Turk, Israeli forces shot lifeless 16-year-old Ahmed Ashraf Hamidat on June 1 and critically wounded 17-year-old Mohammed Musa al-Bitar, who died a day later, close to the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in Jericho.

They had been shot within the again at a distance of about 70 metres whereas operating away after throwing stones or Molotov cocktails at a army publish within the occupied Palestinian territory, he mentioned.

The struggle in Gaza has seen a wave of violence and arrests unleashed within the West Financial institution. No less than 505 Palestinians have been killed within the occupied West Financial institution for the reason that October 7 assaults on Israel, in accordance with knowledge confirmed by the UN. Knowledge exhibits that 24 Israelis have been killed.

A tally by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society information the arrests of 9,025 individuals in the identical interval, together with 300 girls and 635 youngsters. A lot of those that have been launched have reported being tortured and abused throughout their detention.

Renewed violence

As Turk’s assertion was launched, stories of renewed violence and arrests within the West Financial institution had been being filed.

Al Jazeera reporters on the bottom confirmed that Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian males from Tulkarem on Tuesday, with the military claiming they had been about to hold out an armed assault.

Three extra Palestinians had been killed in an Israeli raid on Nablus.

The Wafa information company reported early on Tuesday afternoon that 22 Palestinians, together with former detainees, had been arrested since daybreak.

The arrests, which had been accompanied by raids and threats in opposition to households of the detained, had been carried out in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus, Salfit, Tubas, Jericho and East Jerusalem.

For a second consecutive day, Israeli forces have additionally imposed a blockade on Jericho.

In the meantime, in Ein Samiya, east of Ramallah, Israeli settlers stole 120 sheep belonging to a Palestinian citizen within the newest assault on farmers, in accordance with a Wafa report citing a safety supply.