The situation in the West Bank “threatens to spiral out of control”, warns the UN

The situation in the West Bank “threatens to spin out of control”warned Friday, June 23 the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. ‘The latest killings and violence, along with the inflammatory rhetoric, only serve to plunge Israelis and Palestinians deeper into the abyss’said Volker Türk, quoted in a press release.

Since the beginning of the year, at least 174 Palestinians, 25 Israelis, a Ukrainian and an Italian have been killed in violence linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to an AFP count compiled Thursday from official Israeli sources and Palestinians. These statistics include, on the Palestinian side, combatants and civilians, including minors, and on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, including minors, and three members of the Arab minority.

drone strike

On Wednesday evening, three Palestinians presented by the Israeli army as members of a “terrorist cell” were killed in a drone strike in the occupied West Bank. This is the first action of this type carried out by the Israeli army in the West Bank since August 2006, said a source within Palestinian intelligence.

Calling this development a“dangerous climbing”the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas claimed that this “crime” wouldn’t stay “not unpunished”. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad called the three dead “heroic martyrs”.

The Israeli army, which has occupied the West Bank since 1967, added in a statement that Israelis had “burning of vehicles and properties belonging to Palestinians” and that his soldiers had intervened in Turmusayya “to put out the fires” And “prevent clashes”.