The UN Security Council will meet behind closed doors on Tuesday to address the latest uptick in violence in the West Bank, after the latest Palestinian attacks and reprisal attacks by dozens of Jewish settlers in the area.
The meeting, requested by the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, will be held from 3:00 p.m. in New York (20:00 GMT).
This Monday, the UN itself expressed its concern about the violence in the occupied West Bank, where since this Sunday There is a new spike in violence after a gunman killed two Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Huwara.after which groups of settlers called for revenge and some 400 people attacked the town, where they burned houses, cars and forced the evacuation of numerous Palestinian families.
According to media and analysts, it was the largest attack by settlers in decades and also resulted in the death of a Palestinian and more than 300 injuries, while the attacks spread to other Palestinian towns in the northern West Bank.
This Monday, another Israeli was shot dead in a new shooting in the West Bank, at a crossroads near the Jewish settlement of Beit Aravain the area of the Palestinian city of Jericho.
All this is taking place amid a serious upsurge in violence, both in attacks by settlers and attacks by Palestinians, in addition to intense raids, often with armed clashes, that the Israeli army has been carrying out regularly for a year in the West Bank. , especially in the north, in the area of Nablus and Jenin.
In so far this year, the conflict has left 63 Palestinians dead in the West Bankthe deadliest start of the year in the area since 2000, with an average of more than one death per day.
In turn, counting today’s victim, 14 people have died on the Israeli side, most of them victims of attacks in occupied East Jerusalem.