- Title: UN report deplores 'rapid deterioration' of rights in West Bank
- Date: 28th December 2023
- Summary: OFFENBURG, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 18, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF THEN FINANCE MINISTER WOLFGANG SCHAEUBLE AT THE CELEBRATION TO MARK HIS 75TH BIRTHDAY VARIOUS OF SCHAEUBLE RECEIVING CONGRATULATIONS FROM THEN STATE MINISTER OF SOUTHERN STATE OF BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG, THOMAS STROBL AND THEN EU COMMISSION PRESIDENT JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER BERLIN
- Embargoed: 11th January 2024 12:54
- Keywords: Gaza Hamas Israel UN West bank human rights war
- Location: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND AND TULKARM, WEST BANK
- City: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND AND TULKARM, WEST BANK
- Country: Switzerland
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA003861528122023RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: A United Nations report published on Thursday (December 28) deplored what it called a "rapid deterioration" of human rights in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and urged Israeli authorities to end violence against the Palestinian population there.
The report by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said 300 Palestinians had been killed in the West Bank since Oct. 7, the day Hamas gunmen went on a deadly rampage into southern Israel from Gaza and took hostages back to the Palestinian enclave.
Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the use of unnecessary or disproportionate force against Palestinians in the West Bank was "extremely troubling."
At least 105 deaths could be attributed to Israeli operations involving air strikes or other military tactics in refugee camps or other densely-populated areas. At least eight people were killed by Jewish settlers, according to the report.
The West Bank had already been experiencing the highest levels of unrest in decades during the 18 months preceding the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas gunmen, but confrontations have risen sharply after Israel launched a ground invasion of Gaza.
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