The UN rights chief has demanded an end to surging violence in the occupied West Bank, saying it was “unfathomable” that more than 500 Palestinians had been killed there since October 7, AFP reports.

“As if the tragic events in Israel and then Gaza over the past eight months were not enough, the people of the occupied West Bank are also being subjected to day-after-day of unprecedented bloodshed,” Volker Turk said in a statement.

“It is unfathomable that so many lives have been taken in such a wanton fashion.”

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