US EditionUN Says Israel Aims to Bring About Demographic Change in Palestine
UN rights chief Volker Turk highlights displacement of 32,000 Palestinians and record 54 settlement approvals in 2025 as part of demographic shift concerns.
- On Thursday, UN rights chief Volker Turk said at the UN Human Rights Council that Israel's actions in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip seem aimed at creating `permanent demographic change`, raising concerns about possible ethnic cleansing.
- This month Israel approved initiatives to register West Bank land as `state property` and allow purchases, while Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli far-right Finance Minister, vowed to encourage `emigration` and nullify the Oslo Accords.
- A year-long operation in the West Bank's north displaced 32,000 Palestinians while Bedouin herder communities were driven out near Mikhmas and Ras Ein al-Auja.
- Several countries and Hamas condemned Israel's recent moves in the West Bank, while the UN human rights office reported intensified attacks and denied humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip last week.
- Long ago Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967, and Fathi Nimer, researcher at al-Shabaka, said `They want maximum land and minimum Arabs`, reflecting settlement tactics.
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Geneva. Israel’s military offensives and actions in the reoccupied West Bank and Gaza provoke a “permanent demographic change” and could trigger ethnic cleansing in those territories, said yesterday the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk. The situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, he said, constitutes a “man-made disaster”.
UN says Israel aims to bring about demographic change in Palestine
GENEVA: Israel’s actions in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip seem aimed at creating “permanent demographic change”, UN rights chief Volker Turk said on Thursday. “Taken together, Israel’s actions appear aimed at making a permanent demographic change in Gaza and the West Bank, raising concerns about ethnic cleansing”, Turk said in a speech before the UN’s Human Rights Council in Geneva. Turk pointed in particular to an ongoing, year-long…
“Israel continues to destroy civilian infrastructure and forcibly transfer Palestinians within the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” said High Commissioner Volker Türk.
At a session of the UN Human Rights Council held this Thursday in Geneva, UN High Commissioner Volker Türk expressed concern about Israeli-led military actions in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. According to him, the operations are aimed at causing a “permanent demographic change” in the Palestinian territories. Read: Israel approved the largest annexation of land in the West Bank in three decades, says NGO Expansion: NGOs appeal to the Israeli…
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