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There has been no reprieve from Israel’s lethal military raids in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinians in the area are “being subjected to day after day of unprecedented bloodshed,” Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said this week.

“It is unfathomable that so many lives have been taken in such a wanton fashion.”

More than 500 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank since 7 October, including at least 490 by Israeli troops, according to UN monitoring group OCHA.

Israeli settlers have killed at least 10 Palestinians, and another seven were killed by either Israeli army or settler fire. More than 5,100 Palestinians have been injured, including at least 800 children.

Israeli forces carried out 29 militarized operations during this period, the UN high commissioner said. This involved “airstrikes by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or planes and the firing of ground-to-ground missiles on refugee camps and other densely populated areas.”

These military operations killed 164 Palestinians, including 35 children. This comprises one-third of Israeli killings of Palestinians in the West Bank over the last eight months.

Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces have killed nearly 200 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. This is nearly double and four times the numbers recorded in the same periods last year and in 2022, respectively, Türk warned.

Israeli forces “have often used lethal force as a first resort” in response to Palestinians throwing stones, makeshift incendiary bottles or firecrackers at Israeli armored vehicles.......more.........