The United Nations human rights high commissioner says conflict in the West Bank is deteriorating sharply, calling on Israel to reset its policies and comply with international law.
abc.net.au/news/west-bank-risks-spiraling-out-of-control-un-warns/102519810The United Nations human rights high commissioner has said the situation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank was deteriorating sharply and he called on Israel to reset its policies and comply with international law.
He referred to air strikes with helicopter gunships on the Jenin refugee camp on Monday, calling them a "major intensification of the use of weaponry more generally associated with the conduct of armed hostilities, rather than a law enforcement situation". Israel occupied the West Bank, which Palestinians envisage as the core of an independent state, in the 1967 Middle East war.
Israel's mission in Geneva said Israel was "well aware of its responsibility under international law and acts in accordance with its international obligations at all times".
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