UN human rights chief: situation in West Bank ‘drastically deteriorating’

Palestinians in the Israeli occupied West Bank and East Jerusalemare suffering a drastically worsening human rights environment, alongside “unconscionable death and suffering” in the Gaza Strip, the U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday.

“The situation in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is dramatically deteriorating,” Volker Turk, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the opening session of the U.N. Human Rights Council.

The West Bank, where the internationally...