KABUL: (MEP) Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the Israeli forces have killed at least 178 Palestinians and injured 16,200 others in 2015.
At least 145 of the killings happened during the recent wave of tensions triggered by Israel’s imposition of restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in August, According to a report released by the ministry of health in the country on Wednesday.
According to the informations released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), last year, the homes of some 539 Palestinians were destroyed by the Israeli regime while a further 742 were forced to leave their homes.
Israeli forces also arrested more than 6,830 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds, said a report released from Palestinian Prisoners’ Society. At least 2,179 of those arrested were minors aged between 11 and 18.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank including East al-Quds in 1967.
