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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, November 16, 2023
THE expansion of Israeli settlements in Palestine is likely to amount to a war crime, the United Nations human rights chief said today.
High commissioner for human rights Volker Turk said the record growth of Israeli settlements risks eliminating any prospect of a Palestinian state.
Most countries view the Israeli settlements as illegal under international law and even Israel’s biggest backer, the United States, admitted last month that the settlements are “inconsistent” with it after the Israelis announced plans for another spurt of settler house construction in the occupied West Bank.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
