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UN envoy expresses alarm over high number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces
10-25-2022
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, has expressed alarm over the high number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territories.
“I am alarmed by the deteriorating security situation, including the rise in armed clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem,” Wennesland said in a statement on Saturday.
Since the beginning of the year, Wennesland noted, “at least 100 Palestinians have been killed, including children, amid a significant increase in Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank, including in Area A.”
“The mounting violence in the occupied West Bank is fueling a climate of fear, hatred and anger.”
“It is crucial to reduce tensions immediately to open the space for crucial initiatives aimed at establishing a viable political horizon.”
Wennesland urged, and said he remains actively engaged with, Israeli and Palestinian authorities to restore calm and avoid further escalation.
“The fragility of the situation underscores the urgency of changing the dynamics on the ground, while addressing the underlying security and political issues that are fueling the current instability.”
Wennesland’s remarks come on the same day when Israeli occupation forces killed two Palestinian youths, and one day after another two Palestinians were shot dead by the forces.
The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that four Palestinians, the youngest aged 14 years old and the oldest aged 18 years old, on Friday and Saturday in three separate incidents in the occupied West Bank cities of Ramallah, Jenin and Qalqilia.
On Friday, Adel Ibrahim Daoud, 14, was shot in the head near Israel’s apartheid wall in Qalqilya while Mahdi Ladadweh, 17, was shot in the chest by Israeli gunfire, northwest of Ramallah.
On Saturday, Mahmoud Al-Sous, 18, was shot in the neck and Ahmad Daraghmeh, 16, was hit in the head by Israeli gunfire during a large Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp.
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