UN human rights agency calls on Israel to protect West Bank Palestinians amid worsening tensions

Even before the Hamas attack on Israel, this was already the deadliest year on record for Palestinians living in the Israeli-controlled West Bank according to the United Nations (UN).

About 200 Palestinians were killed in the first nine months of 2023, according to the UN. And in just the last month and a half, 176 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank – including 43 child
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On Friday, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Israel to protect Palestinians and called out the Israeli military’s “heavy-handed operations” in the region.

But as Mike Armstrong reports, rising tensions in the weeks since have only made the situation worse.

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