2022 set to be deadliest year for Palestinians in West Bank
A Palestinian protester chants slogans by tires set aflame outside the Gaza City headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), during a demonstration demanding that their homes which were destroyed in the 2014 conflict with Israel be rebuilt. Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP.
The UN’s Middle East envoy has said 2022 is on course to be the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since the organisation started tracking fatalities in 2005, and called for immediate action to calm “an explosive situation”.
Tor Wennesland told the UN Security Council that “mounting hopelessness, anger and tension have once again erupted into a deadly cycle of violence that is increasingly difficult to contain”, and “too many people, overwhelmingly Palestinian, have been killed and injured”.
