More Palestinians died in 2014 as a result of their conflict with Israel than in any year since 1967, the United Nations claimed in a report on Thursday. 

In the summer of 2014, Hamas fired dozens of rockets on Israel, spurring Operation Protective Edge. Nearly 2,200 Gazans were killed in the ensuing war, almost half of them terrorists.

Since August, violence has escalated in both Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria. 58 Palestinian were killed, mostly in clashes with Israeli security forces, while Palestinian terror attacks caused the deaths of 12 Israelis. 

A report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) entitled “Fragmented Lives” called for more restraint on both sides.

“All parties to the conflict… must fulfill their legal obligations to conduct hostilities in accordance with international law to ensure the protection of all civilians and to ensure accountability for acts committed,” it said.

“Palestinian civilians continue to be subject to threats to their life, physical safety and liberty,” with 2014 seeing the “highest civilian death toll since 1967,” OCHA said.

Addressing Operation Protective Edge, OCHA claimed that 1,500 Palestinian civilians had been killed, despite official reports placing that number much lower. 

“In the Gaza Strip, 1.8 million Palestinians endured the worst escalation of hostilities since 1967: over 1,500 Palestinian civilians were killed, more than 11,000 injured and some 100,000 remain displaced.”

“On the Israeli side, five civilians, including a child, as well as a security guard were killed,” the report added, expressing “serious concerns… over the conduct of hostilities of both Israeli forces and Palestinian actors.”

67 Israelis soldiers were also killed in the two-month conflict. 

AFP contributed to this report.