West Bank: UN Condemns Zionist “Apartheid,” “Asphyxiation” of Palestinians’ Rights
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) affirmed Wednesday that the discrimination and segregation practiced by the Zionist entity against Palestinians in the West Bank are intensifying, resembling the kind of “apartheid system.” In a newly released report, the High Commissioner asserted that “systematic discrimination” targeting the Palestinians throughout the occupied Palestinian territories has drastically worsened over recent years.
“There is a systematic asphyxiation of the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank,” said Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement accompanying the publication of the report.
He underlined that this situation has led to “a particularly severe form of racial discrimination and segregation that resembles the kind of apartheid system we have seen before.” From accessing water, schools, and hospitals to visiting family members or harvesting olives, the UN official lamented that every aspect of the Palestinians’ daily life in the West Bank is controlled and restricted by discriminatory laws, policies, and practices of the Zionist entity.
