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UNRWA chief highlights ‘alarming spill over’ of Gaza war in West Bank
More than 50 people, including children, have been reported killed since the Israeli military operation started five weeks ago, according to Philippe Lazzarini.
“The West Bank is becoming a battlefield: ordinary Palestinians are the first and most to suffer. This must end,” the UN chief said.
“Destruction of public infrastructure, bulldozing roads and access restrictions are common place. People’s lives have been turned upside down, bringing back traumas and loss,” he said, along with other facts and statistics.
The West Bank is undergoing an alarming spill over of the #Gaza war.
More than 50 people, including children, have been reported killed since the Israeli Forces’ operation started 5 weeks ago.
Destruction of public infrastructure, bulldozing roads and access restrictions are…
— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) February 26, 2025
Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager in Qalqilya, occupied West Bank
WAFA news agency quoted local sources as saying Israeli forces shot 16-year-old Hamid Fadl Muwafi in the head with live ammunition while he was near the separation wall in in the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya.
He was transferred to Qalqilya hospital in critical condition but was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.
‘Dozens of distress calls’ from Tulkarem refugee camp: Palestine Red Crescent Society
The Palestine Red Crescent Society says that it has received “dozens of distress calls from families trapped inside Nur Shams Refugee Camp” near Tulkarem, according to a report by the Wafa news agency.
The group said in a statement that it has received numerous calls from families trapped in the camp and that it is facing difficulties reaching them as the area remains surrounded by Israeli forces.
The Nur Shams refugee camp has been severely managed amid the ongoing Israeli military escalation in several areas of the northern occupied West Bank. Thousands of residents have been displaced.
Palestinians walk on a damaged road, leaving Nur Shams refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank, February 26
France ‘concerned’ over Israel’s military escalation in West Bank
The French Foreign Ministry has expressed concern over Israel’s military escalation in the occupied West Bank.
In a statement posted on X, the ministry denounced the operations, which have resulted in numerous civilian casualties and displaced more than 40,000 Palestinians.
“France calls on the Israeli authorities to exercise the utmost restraint in the use of force and to ensure the protection of civilian populations,” the statement read.
“France emphasises that the forcible displacement of populations is contrary to international law and calls on the Israeli authorities to allow civilians displaced by these operations to swiftly return home.”
A Palestinian man walks across rubble left by Israeli raids
