UN human rights chief: situation in West Bank 'drastically deteriorating'

18/6/2024 19:12

        The United Nations human rights chief on Tuesday warned that the rights situation in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was rapidly deteriorating,
        while there had been "unconscionable death and suffering" in Gaza.
        
        "The situation in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is dramatically deteriorating," Volker Turk, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the opening session of the U.N. Human Rights Council.
        
        He said that as of June 15, 528 Palestinians, 133 of them children, had been killed by Israeli security forces or settlers since October, in some cases raising "serious concerns of unlawful killings."
        
        He said that 23 Israelis have been killed in the West Bank and Israel in clashes with or attacks by Palestinians.
        
        Turk said he was "appalled by the disregard for international human rights and humanitarian law" by parties of the conflict in Gaza.