The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) has condemned the Israeli security force’s “increasingly military response” in the occupied West Bank.
The OHCHR says that the Israeli military’s recent operation in the West Bank is being conducted “in a manner which violates international law and risks further enflaming an already explosive situation”.
“The violence between the ISF and armed Palestinians in the West Bank does not constitute an armed conflict under international humanitarian law,” the statement says, adding that “the use of force in the West Bank must comply with human rights norms”.
Since Hamas’s deadly attack on southern Israel on 7 October, Israel has carried out near-daily raids across the West Bank.
Credit: bbc.com
