By Anjali Sharma
UNITED NATIONS, 5th Sept. UN humanitarian wing said on Wednesday that at least 30 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank in a recent week including 7 children the highest number of deaths in a single week since November last year.
OCHA said in a daily news update that Israel’s large-scale operation in the north is continuing, which accounts for 27 of the deaths “where lethal war-like tactics” have been deployed, including 10 killed by airstrikes.
“Four members of the Israeli forces have been killed in the same period by Palestinians in Hebron and Jenin governorates”, OCHA reported.
It called on Israeli forces to “adhere to international law enforcement standards, where lethal force and firearms are a last resort used only against imminent threats of death or serious injury.”
OCHA reiterated that humanitarian access must always be facilitated.
OCHA said that since 7 October, Israeli forces have intensified movement restrictions in the Israeli-controlled area of Hebron city, disrupting access to livelihoods and services for thousands of Palestinians.
“These restrictions are further aggravating the already difficult living conditions there.”
OCHA alerted that half of all health facilities in northwest Syria the final redoubt of opposition forces are at risk of closure by the end of the year.
Services are scaled back due to underfunding, with this year’s appeal only receiving about 26 per cent of the $4.1 billion needed to help nearly 11 million people in need of assistance across Syria, OCHA concluded.
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