The United Nations has called on Israel to “end unlawful killings” of Palestinians amid the rapidly deteriorating rights situation in the West Bank-occupied West Bank.
A report released Thursday demanded an immediate end to the use of military weapons and means during law enforcement operations, an end to arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of Palestinians, and the lifting of discriminatory movement restrictions.
“The use of military tactics and weapons in law enforcement contexts, the use of unnecessary or disproportionate force, and the enforcement of broad, arbitrary and discriminatory movement restrictions that affect Palestinians are extremely troubling,” U.N. rights chief Volker Türk said in a statement.
“The intensity of the violence and repression is something that has not been seen in years.”
The report looked at the human rights situation in the occupied West Bank and annexed East Jerusalem since the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion that killed about 1,140 people.
Israel in retaliation launched a brutal aerial bombardment and a siege followed by a ground invasion, killing at least 21,110 people, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
