From the UN News Centre:
January 17, 2011
A United Nations committee on Palestinian rights today called
on the international community to take steps to compel Israel to end
its “illegal” settlement activity in occupied Palestinian territory,
including East Jerusalem, warning that such actions preclude the
possibility of peace.
on the international community to take steps to compel Israel to end
its “illegal” settlement activity in occupied Palestinian territory,
including East Jerusalem, warning that such actions preclude the
possibility of peace.
“The future of the peace process hangs in the balance,” the Bureau of
the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the
Palestinian People said in a statement, voicing “great alarm” at the
recent upsurge in Israeli settlement activity, despite repeated
international calls for a complete cessation.
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