The humanitarian outlook for the 2.3 million Palestianians is 'dismal' if the rising numbers of Israeli settlers are not curbed, says a hard-hitting report
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
Published: 02 September 2007
".......The hard-hitting report by some of the UN's top Middle East experts suggests that the break-up of the West Bank into dozens of enclaves because of the settlements – which, along with the roads and military apparatus that serve them, take up almost 40 per cent of the West Bank – is making a two-state solution "elusive". And it underlines the daunting task facing Tony Blair – who is partly charged with reviving a Palestinian economy close to collapse – by warning that unless the settlement issue is tackled "the dismal humanitarian outlook" for the West Bank's 2.3 million Palestinians "will intensify"......"
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