25-11-2024 08:58 AM Jerusalem Timing

UN Urges Israel to Protect Palestinians from Settlers’ Violence

UN Urges Israel to Protect Palestinians from Settlers’ Violence

The United Nations human rights office urged Israel to stop its settlers and soldiers from attacking Palestinian civilians in the West Bank

The United Nations human rights office urged Israel on Tuesday to stop its settlers and soldiers from attacking Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.

Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told reporters in Geneva that Israel has a legal obligation "to protect Palestinian civilians and property in the occupied Palestinian territory."

Colville said that the wave of attacks occurring since September must be properly investigated and victims compensated, adding that they were "emblematic of the phenomenon of settler violence throughout the West Bank."

Colevile specifically cited the uprooting of 200 olive trees in the West Bank village of Qusra village on October 6, and the shooting death of a Palestinian civilian by an Israeli occupation forces soldier two weeks prior, as examples of incidents that should be brought for investigation.