The statement was backed by both the United States and Russia in a rare moment of unity.
A Palestinian woman sits outside her torched home in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya on June 24, 2023, days after it was set on fire by Jewish settlers. | AP Photo/Mahmoud IlleanUNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to avoid actions that can further inflame tensions in the volatile West Bank.
Wennesland said he was particularly alarmed by “the extreme levels of settler violence, including large numbers of settlers, many armed, systematically attacking Palestinian villages, terrorizing communities,” sometimes with support from Israeli forces. Mourners carry the body of Nachman Mordoff, 17, during his funeral in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Shilo on June 21, 2023. He was one of four Israelis killed by Palestinian gunmen. | AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg
At a time of escalating violence, there was widespread council criticism of plans by Israel’s far-right government to build over 5,000 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and speed up settlement approvals. Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia also expressed serious concern at the escalating violence, pointing to an Israeli raid on June 19 in the Jenin Refugee Camp that killed seven Palestinians, clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinians, and intensified Israeli activity to broaden and legalize settlements.
The Palestinians are more convinced every day that “there is no help on the way,” Mansour said, urging the council, “Show them that help is on the way.”
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