UN calls on Israel to protect Palestinian families amid settler attacks in West Bank village
LONDON: The UN human rights office on Thursday urged Israeli authorities to protect Palestinian families trapped in their homes for days by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, amid what it described as an intensifying campaign to seize Palestinian land.
Three families, comprising about 15 people, including at least two children, were confined to their homes in the Ras Al-Ein area of Qusra, a village south of Nablus, “in a state of terror,” the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said.
Settlers had cut off their electricity and water, according to media reports.
“These criminal actions by the settlers, supported or acquiesced to by Israel, the Occupying Power, are making life unbearable for these Palestinian families and are clearly aimed at forcing them to leave their homes and their land,” OHCHR said.
