United Nations: The violence of West Bank settlers is at a shocking level

Volker Terek, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Friday that Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and violations of their rights in the West Bank have reached “shocking new levels” since the conflict between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, 2023. Is.

He assessed that the escalation of violence carries the risk of destroying any practical possibility to create a Palestinian state.

Turk said: The expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which is illegal according to international laws, set a new record in 2023 and reached 24,300 new units. He said that the expansion of the settlements is a war crime, because it represents the transfer of the Israeli population to the Palestinian land.

Previously, the occupying regime agreed to build about 3,500 new residential units in the Zionist settlements south of Quds city; An action that Hamas considered a plan to control the land and limit the Palestinian nation.

These actions of the Israeli regime come at a time when the United Nations Security Council issued an official statement on March 1, 1401 (February 20, 2023), condemning the Zionist regime’s plan to expand settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories; An action that took place after 6 years since the last resolution of this council, and America also appeared in the role of opposing its long-time ally.