Israeli forces are engaging in “unwarranted use of lethal force” against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, a humanitarian group said on Friday. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said the first half of this year had seen a serious escalation of violence and rights violations in the Palestinian territory, adding that more than 1,000 people had been displaced and almost 160,000 negatively impacted by demolitions. Israeli forces and settlers killed 228 Palestinians, among them 58 children, from January to June 2024, according to the United Nations, a jump of 65 percent on the same…