Hamas said in a statement that the settler’s attacks and savage crimes in the West Bank are a continuation of the war on the Gaza Strip aimed at exterminating the Palestinian people.
These attacks are part of the Zionist occupation project to annex the West Bank to occupied territories and speed up forced relocation of Palestinians, the resistance group stated.
Hamas called on the people of the West Bank and revolutionary youth to confront settlers and mobilize to foil the attacks that are carried out with support from Israeli regime forces.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has slammed the ongoing deadly violence committed by Israeli settlers and the regime forces in the occupied West Bank.
“In the West Bank, high levels of settler violence against Palestinians continue, causing death, injuries and loss of property and undermining Palestinian lives and livelihoods in many areas,” the UN human rights office said in a statement on Friday, referring to “concerning” recent incidents.
It added that the Israeli forces "continued the practice of unlawful killings and large-scale operations in northern West Bank."
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Over the past week, Israeli forces “killed three Palestinians who were throwing stones, including two children”, the statement said.
According to the OHCHR, the latest casualties have brought to “192 the number of children killed” by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the start of the Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023.
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