NEW YORK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) More than 50 people, including children, have been reported killed since the Israeli military operation started five weeks ago, said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on X.
“The West Bank is becoming a battlefield: ordinary Palestinians are the first and most to suffer. This must end,” the UN official added.
“Destruction of public infrastructure, bulldozing roads and access restrictions are commonplace. People’s lives have been turned upside down, bringing back traumas and loss,” he said.
He further noted that around 40,000 people have been forced to flee their homes especially in refugee camps in the north. “This must end.”
“More than 5,000 children who normally go to UNRWA schools have been deprived of education, some for over 10 weeks now.”
“Patients cannot access healthcare, families are cut off from water, electricity & other basic services.”
More and more people are relying on humanitarian aid at a time when aid agencies are overstretched and severely under resourced, he said.
The Israeli occupation army began a major raid in the West Bank’s north over a month ago, just after a truce went into effect in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 and carries out regular raids against Palestinians, but the current offensive in the north is the longest continuous one in the territory in two decades.
Israel on Sunday said its troops would remain for many months in refugee camps in the northern West Bank after tens of thousands of Palestinians living there were displaced by an intensifying, weeks-long military operation.
