A U.N.-mandated inquiry reported Tuesday that Palestinian civilians are facing "mass atrocities" committed by Israeli forces and settlers.
Civilians across war-ravaged Gaza and the occupied West Bank are being "systematically and deliberately" subjected to severe rights violations, the U.N.'s Independent International Commission of Inquiry said.
In the Gaza Strip, "ordinary Palestinians find themselves trapped between the structural violence and mass atrocities of Israeli forces ... ," the report said.
In the West Bank, which has seen soaring violence since Israel's genocidal Gaza war was launched in October 2023, the report described how Palestinian civilians were increasingly targeted by Israeli settler attacks.
"Violence by settlers is the direct outcome of Israeli policies that support, enable and protect their actions," commission chair Srinivasan Muralidhar said in a statement.
