DUBAI, November 13. /TASS/. Over 740 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since October 7, 2023, according to a report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The document specifies that between October 7 and October 31, 2023, a total of 742 Palestinians lost their lives, with nearly 6,699 wounded. The areas of Jenin and Tulkarm have experienced the highest number of fatalities.

The release also states that 24 Israelis were killed in the West Bank between October 1, 2023 and October 31, 2024.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7, 2023, when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. In response, Israel has declared a state of war readiness; announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians; and began delivering air strikes on the enclave and certain parts of Lebanon and Syria, followed by a ground operation in the enclave. Clashes are underway in the West Bank as well.