The United Nations (UN) has again slammed the latest killing of a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank by armed Israeli settlers, expressing deep concern about the “extremely violent attack.”
“We are deeply concerned about the protracted and extremely violent attack on Palestinians in the West Bank village of al-Mughayer last Saturday (26 January), during which a 38-year-old Palestinian father of four, Hamdi Taleb Na’asan, was shot in the back and killed,” said a Tuesday statement by the spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNCHR), Rupert Colville.
According to the statement, monitoring by the UNCHR’s local staff suggested the killing was perpetrated by a group of 30 Israeli settlers from the nearby Adei Ad outpost following an attack on Palestinian farmers working on their fields.