Edward Carver is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
The United Nations ' top human rights official said Tuesday that the situation in the West Bank was 'dramatically deteriorating' and that Israel i security forces and settlers had killed 528 Palestinians in the occupied territory since October, 'in many cases raising serious concerns of unlawful killings.' Volker Türk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, made the remarks to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva at the opening of a weekslong session.
Israeli forces reportedly killed bystanders in clashes and used 'unnecessary or disproportionate force against Palestinians involved in confrontations and clashes, resulting in unlawful killings,' the report states. Türk said at the time that the 'dehumanization' of Palestinians was 'very disturbing' and that Israeli settler violence and expansion of settlements must stop immediately—a call that was not heeded.
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