Record-High Settler Violence: Nearly Four Incidents Daily in West Bank in 2024

Illegal Jewish settlers invade the lands of Umm Safa, successful the occupied West Bank. (Photo: via @ytirawi Tw page)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The UN reports record-high settler unit and fatalities successful the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem successful 2024.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported the “highest number” of amerciable Israeli settler-related incidents successful the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The past twelvemonth has seen the “highest number” of amerciable Israeli settler-related incidents successful the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, the UN UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported connected Tuesday.

It’s Saturday greeting successful Khirbet Susiya, successful the South Hebron Hills, and Hussein and Wissam Nawaj'ah are sitting down to breakfast.

Suddenly, a radical of teenage Israeli settlers enters the village, their faces covered.

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It said, “2024 has seen the highest fig of settler-related incidents crossed the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since the bureau began keeping records astir 2 decades ago.”

“About 1,400 specified incidents – including carnal assaults, arson attacks, raids connected Palestinian communities and the demolition of effect trees – person resulted successful Palestinian casualties, harm to property, oregon both,” stated the OCHA. “This is astir 4 incidents per day.”

Second Highest Fatality Rate

Of the 4,700 radical internally displaced crossed the West Bank successful the past year, “about 560, oregon 12 per cent,” person cited settler unit and entree restrictions arsenic the main reasons that forced them retired of their homes oregon communities, the UN bureau noted.

The twelvemonth 2024 “has besides marked the 2nd highest fig of Palestinian fatalities successful the West Bank since OCHA’s records began, pursuing 2023 which was the highest.”

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More than 480 Palestinians, including 91 children, person been killed crossed the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, according to the OCHA.

“Most of them were killed by Israeli forces. Palestinians from the West Bank killed 35 Israelis, including 3 children, either successful the West Bank oregon successful Israel,” it noted.

‘War-Like Tactics’

While astatine slightest 14 Palestinians were killed successful “intra-Palestinian unit involving Palestinian forces.”

Over 3,000 Palestinians and much than 150 Israelis were injured successful the West Bank, the UN bureau stated.

It pointed retired that the Israeli service operations successful 2023 and 2024 successful the West Bank “have progressive airstrikes and different war-like tactics that seems to transcend the means of modular instrumentality enforcement.”

‘Great Opportunity’ for Permanent War: What if Israel Annexed the West Bank?

Under planetary law, the West Bank and East Jerusalem are considered “occupied territories” and each Jewish settlement-building enactment determination is illegal.

In a landmark advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice declared in July past twelvemonth that Israel’s ongoing decades-long concern of Palestinian onshore was “unlawful ” and should beryllium brought to an extremity “as rapidly arsenic possible.”

(The Palestine Chronicle)