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UNICEF says 70 Palestinian children have been killed in the occupied West Bank since January last year, 93% by Israeli forces.
Palestinians face an unprecedented number of settler attacks.
Incidents documented by UNICEF include children shot, stabbed, beaten and pepper sprayed.
Education is under what it calls sustained assault, with 99 documented incidences this year alone.
For thousands of children across the occupied West Bank, UNICEF says daily travel to school has become a walk through fear.
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
UNICEF says 70 Palestinian children have been killed in the occupied West Bank since January last year, 93% by Israeli forces.
Palestinians face an unprecedented number of settler attacks.
Incidents documented by UNICEF include children shot, stabbed, beaten and pepper sprayed.
Education is under what it calls sustained assault, with 99 documented incidences this year alone.
For thousands of children across the Occupied West Bank, UNICEF says daily travel to school has become a walk through fear.
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank.
The sanctions package that targets three settlers and four settler organisations had been repeatedly blocked by former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Hungary's new leader, Peter Magyar, though, has not blocked the measure.
Last week, the European Commission said the EU would spend 6 million euros on volunteer monitors and emergency responders to settle a violence in the occupied West Bank after a sharp rise in attacks against Palestinians.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on X called the EU sanctions on settlers arbitrary and said the decision to target both Hamas officials and settlers created a, quote, distorted moral equivalence.
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank.
The cemetery where the Assasa family has buried their dead for generations, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, now lies only some 300 metres from an Israeli settlement that was re-established there last year.