Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Three days after the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion stating that Israel 's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is unlawful, the United Nations children's rights agency said that after decades of being 'exposed to horrific violence,' the number of children who have been killed in the West Bank since last October has skyrocketed.
All three cities have seen a rise in 'militarized law enforcement operations' over the last two years, said UNICEF, as Israeli soldiers and settlers have stormed parts of the territory ' to scare Palestinians out of' their homes, as the International Crisis Group reported last year.
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