Israel's finance minister said the Palestinian village Huwara 'needs to be wiped out' and 'the state of Israel should do it,' which the U.N. human rights chief condemned as 'an unfathomable statement of incitement to violence and hostility.'
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk addresses the high-level segment of the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council on February 27, 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland.Noting that communities like Huwara are often targeted by Israeli settlers, Amnesty's regional director urged Israel"to remove all settlements, which are war crimes under international law, and to dismantle its system of apartheid against Palestinians.
More broadly, Türk lamented that"the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory is a tragedy. A tragedy, above all, for the Palestinian people. Over half a century of occupation has led to widening dispossession, deepening deprivation, and recurring and severe violations of their rights, including the right to life. Nobody could wish to live this way—or imagine that forcing people into conditions of such desperation can lead to an enduring solution.
Palestinians killed 13 Israelis—and nine more, including three children, have been killed in two attacks since then;
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