ISRAELI MINISTER SAYS HE SHOULD BE RAZED
The United Nations rapporteur for human rights, Volker Turk, has accused the Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, for remarks in which he called for the Palestinian village of Huwara to be “wiped out”, describing the comments as “an unfathomable statement of incitement to violence and hostility”
“The
situation in the occupied Palestinian territory is a tragedy, a tragedy above
all for the Palestinian people,” Volker Turk told the Geneva-based UN Human
Rights Council on Friday as he formally presented a report on the situation in
the occupied territories.
Smotrich
made the comments on Wednesday after a spate of deadly Palestinian attacks and
Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank.
The
European Union also called on Friday for accountability and for perpetrators to
be brought to justice after a rampage by Israeli settlers this week in the
occupied West Bank in which one Palestinian was killed and dozens of houses,
shops and cars were torched.
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