The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has recorded a significant uptick in Israeli military violence across the occupied West Bank amid a large-scale operation in the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, Al Jazeera reports.
Ten Palestinians have been killed and 36 others injured by the Israeli military over the last two weeks, according to the UNOCHA’s latest situation update.
Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian communities have also increased, with a mosque in Marda village set ablaze and racist graffiti scrawled on its walls, marking the third mosque to be attacked by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank this year.
Settler also vandalised a building constructed by an NGO that was nearing the final stages of completion, and an attack on a Palestinian livestock tent that settler groups attempted to take over.
Upon being challenged, the settler group vandalised a nearby Palestinian home near a new settler “outpost” in the area that had only been established on December 16, the UN reports.
