PALESTINE
Fri 30 Jun 2023 9:23 am - Jerusalem Time
UN data: a jump in the number of settler attacks against the Palestinians
Data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs showed that the average monthly settler attacks against Palestinians during 2023 amounted to 95.
According to that data, as reported in Haaretz newspaper, on Friday morning, 3 attacks are recorded daily, including on Saturdays and holidays.
The data indicates that from the beginning of this year until the twenty-sixth of this month, hundreds of settlers participated in about 570 different attacks, and about 160 of them ended with physical injuries, one of which led to the death of a Palestinian, and the occurrence of various actual injuries that do not include trauma and anxiety.
And in the past year 2022, 71 attacks were recorded on a monthly average against Palestinians, as 849 different attacks were carried out, resulting in the injury of 228 Palestinians. It is almost the same as in the year before 335.
The Hebrew newspaper pointed out that these numbers recorded this year are not final, especially with settlers doubling their attacks in the last two weeks, and that these data do not include settler harassment of Palestinians, which did not result in injuries to lives and property, such as blocking roads, threats, shooting in the air, and encroaching on lands, springs, etc.
Haaretz says: The phenomenon of Jewish violence against Palestinians in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) is much wider than what is expressed in the existing statistics, and it is certainly much broader than what can be deduced from the reports in the Israeli press.
She added: The rioters enjoy the support of their supporters in the current government, and the aim of these attacks is to seize the private and public lands of Palestinians in the West Bank, at a faster rate than allows for institutionalized appropriation measures such as confiscation.
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UN data: a jump in the number of settler attacks against the Palestinians