United Nations Condemns Israeli Apartheid and Strangling of Palestinian Lives in the West Bank

SadaNews - The United Nations Human Rights Commission warned on Wednesday about the escalation of what it described as the "suffocating effects" of Israeli "discriminatory" policies on the lives of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, considering that they have begun to "resemble an apartheid regime".

The commission stated in a report that: "Systematic discrimination against Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory has deteriorated significantly" in recent years.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "Volker Turk", said in a statement accompanying the report: "There is a systematic strangulation of Palestinian rights in the West Bank; every aspect of Palestinian life in the West Bank is subjected to Israeli control and restrictions, resulting from discriminatory laws, policies, and practices".

He added: "This particularly represents one of the forms of serious discrimination and apartheid, and it resembles the apartheid regime that we have seen before".

Turk continued: "Whether it concerns access to water, going to school, going to the hospital, visiting family and friends, or harvesting olives, every aspect of Palestinian life in the West Bank is subjected to Israeli control and restrictions, resulting from discriminatory laws, policies, and practices".