UN Human Rights Chief Raises Alarm Over Concerns of Unlawful Killings by Israel
This follows reporting of a surge of Israeli settler violence, supported by security forces, in West Bank since October.
The United Nations’ top human rights official said Tuesday that the situation in the West Bank was “dramatically deteriorating” and that Israeli security forces and settlers had killed 528 Palestinians in the occupied territory since October, “in many cases raising serious concerns of unlawful killings.” Volker Türk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, made the remarks to the U.N.