Sunday, January 29, 2012

UN demands end to Israel demolitions in West Bank



AFP – Sat, Jan 28, 2012

"The United Nations has called on Israel to immediately halt the destruction of Palestinian homes in the West Bank after reporting a dramatic rise in demolitions in the past year.

Israeli forces destroyed 622 Palestinian homes in the West Bank in 2011, "forcibly displacing" almost 1,100 people, over half of them children, according to a UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs report.

"The current policy and practice of demolitions cause extensive human suffering and should end," UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territories, Maxwell Gaylard, said late Friday....."

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