Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu has announced firm action against violence in the occupied West Bank. He emphasized that he considers Israeli settlers who carry out violence to be a minority group. The majority of settlers are law-abiding and loyal to the state, Netanyahu said before a cabinet meeting, according to a government statement. “We will take very firm action against violence against Israeli soldiers and Palestinians, because we are a country of laws,” Netanyahu said.
In light of recent attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian facilities and homes in… West Bank The UN human rights office complained on Friday about a pattern of increasing violence against Palestinians. More than 260 attacks were recorded in October, more than in any month since 2006. Israel has consistently rejected the UN Human Rights Office’s accusations and accused it of bias against Israel.
According to international jurisprudence, the West Bank, like the Gaza Strip, is one of them Israel occupied territories. Some 700,000 Israeli settlers live there among three million Palestinians. The Palestinians claim the territory as their own state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Israel conquered, among other things, the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the Six Day War in 1967.
Since the massacre carried out by the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas in Israel on October 7 2023 and the resulting Gaza war, tensions in the West Bank have increased. According to the UN, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in attacks carried out by settlers or Israeli security forces in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. 59 Israelis were killed there in attacks or fighting in the same period.
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