ARAB AND WORLD
Tue 23 Jan 2024 10:54 am - Jerusalem Time
OCHA report: Since October 7th, Israeli colonists committed 444 attacks against Palestinians in West Bank
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that Israeli colonists committed 444 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 7 October 2023.
OCHA said in its report that as 22 January 2024, it has "recorded 444 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians, resulting in Palestinian casualties (45 incidents), damage to Palestinian-owned property (344 incidents), or both casualties and damage to property (55 incidents). This reflects a daily average of four incidents. "One-third of the settler attacks against Palestinians after 7 October 2023 have involved firearms, including shootings and threats of shootings.
In nearly half of all recorded incidents after 7 October, Israeli forces were either accompanying or reported to be supporting the attackers.
In 2023, 1,229 incidents involving Israeli settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (with or without Israeli forces), resulted in Palestinian casualties, property damage or both. Some 913 of these incidents resulted in damage, 163 resulted in casualties and 153 resulted in both.
This is the highest number of settler attacks against Palestinians in any given year since OCHA started recording incidents involving settlers in 2006.
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OCHA report: Since October 7th, Israeli colonists committed 444 attacks against Palestinians in West Bank