Wednesday, September 28, 2011

UN Panel Condemns Israeli Actions

"These actions by the Israeli authorities violate human rights and humanitarian law and must end immediately," the UN special rapporteurs on the rights to housing, food, and drinking water said in a statement issued in Geneva on Tuesday.

The rapporteurs added, “The impact and discriminatory nature of these demolitions and evictions is completely unacceptable," AFP reported.

The panel of three independent UN human rights experts reporting to the UN Human Rights Council stated, in some places, there are nearly weekly burnings of Palestinian villagers' property, agricultural fields and fruit trees by Israeli settlers residing on the occupied Palestinian territories .... http://www.presstv.ir