Israel must protect Palestinians in West Bank – UN

Israel has a responsibility to protect Palestinians in the West Bank, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday.
According to the UN, Palestinians in the West Bank have been targeted by more violence since the Israeli attacks on Gaza started last month.

At least 176 Palestinians, including 43 children and one woman, had been killed in incidents involving Israeli security forces in the West bank since the beginning of October, Volker Türk said.

At least eight Palestinians had been killed by Israeli settlers, he added.

According to Türk, this was already the deadliest year on record for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, with around 200 killed, even before the attacks started.

“I …appeal as a matter of urgency for Israeli authorities to take immediate measures, to take steps to ensure the protection of Palestinians in the West Bank, who are being on a daily basis subjected to violence from Israeli forces and settlers, ill treatment, arrests, evictions, intimidation and humiliation,” Turk told reporters in Jordan’s capital Amman.

The Israeli aggression on Gaza and the West Bank killed around 11,000 innocent civilians in one month.