A new UN report says Israeli forces killed one Palestinian and injured more than 100 others from April 8 to 14 alone.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said at least 20 children were among the victims.
The report said Israeli forces also razed down 15 Palestinian homes, which led to the displacement of dozens of Palestinians within the period.
The UN office says since the beginning of 2014 Israeli forces have killed over 20 Palestinians and wounded more than 700 in the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
In 2013, Israeli troops killed nearly 30 Palestinians in the West Bank and nine in the Gaza Strip, according to a report compiled by B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
Israeli regime forces killed eight Palestinians in the West Bank and over 240 in the Gaza Strip in 2012.
The Israeli regime also holds a significant number of Palestinians in prison.
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs said on April 16 that 5,000 Palestinian inmates remain in Israeli prisons.
Out of the 5,000 inmates 476 are sentenced to life imprisonment, according to the Palestinian ministry report.
The report, released by Palestine Information Center, also pointed to other scandalous facts regarding the fate of Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons, including the incarceration of 19 Palestinian women and 200 children.
Human rights organizations say the detentions executed by Israeli authorities have been explicit breaches of the international humanitarian law.
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