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UN REPORT DEPLORES 'RAPID DETERIORATION' OF RIGHTS IN WEST BANK

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December 28, 20237:28 PM GMT+1Updated a year ago
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GENEVA, Dec 28 (Reuters) - A United Nations report published on Thursday
deplored what it called a "rapid deterioration" of human rights in the
Israeli-occupied West Bank and urged Israeli authorities to end violence against
the Palestinian population there.
The report by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
said 300 Palestinians had been killed in the West Bank since Oct. 7, the day
Hamas gunmen went on a deadly rampage into southern Israel from Gaza and took
hostages back to the Palestinian enclave.
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Most of the West Bank killings occurred during operations by Israeli security
forces or confrontations with them.
At least 105 deaths could be attributed to Israeli operations involving air
strikes or other military tactics in refugee camps or other densely-populated
areas. At least eight people were killed by Jewish settlers, it said.
Tal Heinrich, a spokesperson for the Israeli Prime Minister's Office, dismissed
the report as "quite ridiculous".
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"It completely belittles the major security threats to Israelis emerging from
Judea and Samaria," she said, referring to the West Bank by its Hebrew biblical
names.
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"Yes, we arrested hundreds of terror suspects in that area and we will continue
to do whatever it takes to maintain our security."
Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the use of
unnecessary or disproportionate force against Palestinians in the West Bank was
"extremely troubling".

"I call on Israel to take immediate, clear and effective steps to put an end to
settler violence against the Palestinian population, to investigate all
incidents of violence by settlers and Israeli security forces, to ensure
effective protection of Palestinian communities," he said.
The OHCHR said it had also recorded mass arbitrary detentions, unlawful
detentions and cases of reported torture and other forms of ill-treatment of
Palestinian detainees. It said some 4,785 Palestinians had been detained in the
West Bank since Oct. 7.

"Some were stripped naked, blindfolded and restrained for long hours with
handcuffs and with their legs tied, while Israeli soldiers stepped on their
heads and backs, were spat at, slammed against walls, threatened, insulted,
humiliated and in some cases subjected to sexual and gender-based violence," an
OHCHR statement about the report said.
Israel's military has said it operates against suspected militants in the West
Bank and that investigations have been launched into cases of possible ill
treatment of detainees.
The West Bank had already been experiencing the highest levels of unrest in
decades during the 18 months preceding the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas
gunmen, but confrontations have risen sharply after Israel launched a ground
invasion of Gaza.

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Reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; additional reporting by Maayan Lubell;
editing by Mark Heinrich

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