The situation in the West Bank has become “alarming and urgent”, the United Nations has said, citing in particular an escalation of violence by Israeli settlers towards Palestinians, AFP reports.

From October 7 to Thursday, 132 Palestinians, including 41 children, had been killed in the West Bank while two Israeli soldiers also perished, the UN rights office said.

“The situation in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is alarming and urgent, amid the increasing and multi-layered human rights violations of Palestinians occurring there”, spokeswoman Elizabeth Throssell told reporters in Geneva.