UN: 2015 was most violent year in West Bank, Israel in the last decade

Last year saw the highest number of Palestinian and Israeli casualties in the West Bank and Israel since the UN began recording such data a decade ago, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a report issued early Monday morning.

 

The 19-page report titled “Fragmented Lives” took aim at Israel’s continued military rule of the West Bank as well as its hold on east Jerusalem by looking at the impact on Palestinian lives on the ground.

 

“This month, Palestinians enter their 50th year under Israeli occupation,” said David Carden, head of OCHA in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

 

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