New York (UNA/WAFA) – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced that it documented 397 settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during October, a record high for a single month since monitoring of these attacks began in 2006..
The UN office stated in a report issued on Sunday that the aforementioned statistics did not include the last five days of last month, explaining that 62 attacks occurred between October 20 and 26, targeting 49 Palestinian communities throughout the West Bank, including 38 attacks related to the olive harvest season..
The report also documented the injury of 57 Palestinians, including 9 children, during the same week, as a result of attacks carried out by settlers and occupation forces in various areas of the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem. It indicated that 23 Palestinians were injured in settler attacks, while 34 others were injured by gunfire and attacks by occupation forces..
Last month, Amnesty International called on the international community to impose sanctions on Israeli officials involved in violations of international law and to take urgent action to stop the escalating settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, coinciding with the start of the olive harvest season..
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