Violence in the occupied West Bank linked to the Israeli war in Gaza passed a deadly milestone with more than 500 Palestinians killed since October 7, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday UNITED NATIONS, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 4th Jun, 2024) Violence in the occupied West Bank linked to the Israeli war in Gaza passed a deadly milestone with more than 500 Palestinians killed since October 7, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday. Two of the latest fatalities were 16-year-old Ahmed Ashraf Hamidat and 17-year-old Mohammed Musa Al Bitar, both shot “at a distance of about 70 metres while running away after throwing stones and/or Molotov cocktails towards a[n Israeli] military post outside a settlement near Aqabat Jaber, CCTV footage shows”, said the High Commissioner’s Office, OHCHR. The youngsters’ deaths, along with the killings of four more Palestinians by the Israeli army on Monday, brings the Palestinian toll to 505, OHCHR said.
In the same period, 24 Israelis including eight who were Israeli Security Forces members, were killed in the West Bank and Israel in clashes or alleged attacks by Palestinians from the West Bank. “As if the tragic events in Israel and then Gaza over the past eight months were not enough, the people of the occupied West Bank are also being subjected to day-after-day of unprecedented bloodshed. It is unfathomable that so many lives have been taken in such a w.
