UN claims Israel’s West Bank plans would accelerate ‘dispossession of Palestinians’

Israel’s plans to tighten control over the West Bank, paving the way for further settlement expansion, are a step toward consolidating illegal annexation, the UN rights chief says.

“If these decisions are implemented, they will undoubtedly accelerate the dispossession of Palestinians and their forcible transfer, and lead to the creation of more illegal Israeli settlements,” Volker Turk says in a statement.

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