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Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, escalated to unprecedented levels in 2024, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said.
In a statement issued yesterday, OCHA said that it has documented settler violence in the occupied Palestinian territories for about 20 years, and 2024 was the most violent with about 1,400 attacks recorded.
The attacks, it added, included physical assaults, arson attacks, raids on Palestinian communities and the destruction of fruit trees. On average, four attacks were recorded per day, with many Palestinians forcibly displaced as a result.
OCHA said 2024 also witnessed the highest number of deaths among Palestinians in the occupied territories.
It is estimated that more than 300,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israel’s genocidal war, which began in October 2023. A further 835 Palestinians were killed by occupation forces in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in that time.
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