Ruth Sherlock
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937 appearances
123 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 1 Jul
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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.
Another 850 have been wounded.
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.
Palestinians now have to obtain Israeli permits to bury their dead there.
The Assasa family did this to later arrest their elderly father, Hussein, on Friday.
But only hours later, settlers forced the family to exhume Hussein's body, claiming the grave was too close to the settlement.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment, but told Israeli media that it had intervened after friction between Palestinians and Israeli civilians and said the incident was under review.
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
It's NPR.
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 meters from an Israeli settlement that was re-established there last year.
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