UN Rapporteur Richard Falk: “Israeli” Policies Mere Apartheid
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights Richard Falk has accused the international community of complicity in "Israeli" settlement policies and said "Israel" is implementing an apartheid system.
According to AFP, the UN Rapporteur made the remarks during a press conference after addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday and delivering a report.
"The international community is conspiring -- maybe unwittingly -- in a process that has no way of bringing justice to the people involved in this conflict," Falk said described the "Israeli" settlements issue.
He noted that Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are offered no protection in "Israeli" law, adding that their treatment is similar to apartheid.
"I think one has to begin to call the reality by a name," he said, likening the "discriminatory dualistic legal system" in the West Bank to the former system in South Africa.
In his report, Falk also expressed concern about "Israel's" use of administrative detention, the expansion of settlements, and violence by settlers. Settler violence against Palestinians was a new feature of the drive to occupy the Palestinian territories, especially around al-Khalil (Hebron) and Nablus, he added.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights Richard Falk has accused the international community of complicity in "Israeli" settlement policies and said "Israel" is implementing an apartheid system.
According to AFP, the UN Rapporteur made the remarks during a press conference after addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday and delivering a report.
"The international community is conspiring -- maybe unwittingly -- in a process that has no way of bringing justice to the people involved in this conflict," Falk said described the "Israeli" settlements issue.
He noted that Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are offered no protection in "Israeli" law, adding that their treatment is similar to apartheid.
"I think one has to begin to call the reality by a name," he said, likening the "discriminatory dualistic legal system" in the West Bank to the former system in South Africa.
In his report, Falk also expressed concern about "Israel's" use of administrative detention, the expansion of settlements, and violence by settlers. Settler violence against Palestinians was a new feature of the drive to occupy the Palestinian territories, especially around al-Khalil (Hebron) and Nablus, he added.
At least 3,500 buildings were under construction in the West Bank in 2011, Falk reported, not including "Israeli" settlements in annexed east al-Quds (Jerusalem).
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