NEW YORK (Dispatches) – The UN, on Thursday, reported a “three-fold” surge in the Zionist regime’s killing of Palestinian children in the Occupied West Bank, Anadolu Agency reports.
Spokesman Stephane Dujarric indicated at a news conference that “children are bearing the brunt of the worsening situation in the West Bank”, and said that “since October 7 of last year, four Palestinian children have been killed every week on average in the West Bank – marking a three-fold increase compared to the first nine months of 2023.”
He noted illegal Zionist settler violence in the Occupied West Bank, adding that the violence continues to displace Palestinian children.
“Of the more than 1,700 Palestinians displaced by settler violence, intimidation and harassment in Bedouin and herding communities, nearly half were children,” he said.
Over the past few years, the Zionist regime’s military has conducted regular raids in the Occupied West Bank, which have escalated with the beginning of the genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. 
Palestinians have also been violently attacked by illegal Zionist settlers.
Nearly 795 Palestinians have since been killed and more than 6,450 injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied territory, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
In July, the International Court of Justice issued a landmark advisory opinion that declared the regime’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all existing settlements in the West Bank and East Al-Quds.