UN Human Rights Office: Israeli forces have killed nearly 1,000 Palestinians since Gaza ceasefire announcement

The United Nations Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said on Monday that Israeli forces have killed nearly 1,000 Palestinians since the ceasefire was announced last October, the vast majority of them civilians.

In a statement posted on the social media platform X and monitored by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), the office said that Israeli authorities are confining Palestinians to an ever-shrinking area of Palestinian territory while restricting access to life-saving humanitarian aid.

In the occupied West Bank, the office noted that Israeli security forces, alongside settlers, have accelerated settlement expansion and land annexation efforts. It reported that 57 Palestinians have been killed, around 1,300 injured, hundreds arrested, and 23 land confiscation orders issued so far this year.

The office also pointed out that some senior Israeli officials have publicly spoken about removing all Palestinians from Gaza and eliminating any possibility of a viable Palestinian state, stressing that such actions are entirely illegal under international law.