Israel has expanded and consolidated settlements in the occupied West Bank as part of the integration of these territories to the State of Israel, in violation of international law, reported the United Nations Human Rights Office on Tuesday (18).
The report, based on research between November 1, 2023 and October 31, 2024, reported that there was a “significant” expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
It also cited reports from Israeli non -governmental organizations about tens of thousands of housing units planned in new or existing settlements.
The conclusions will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council this month and occur amid increasing fears of annexation among the Palestinians.
All of this occurs as US policy changes under the command of US President Donald Trump and new advanced settler posts are installed in areas of the West Bank seen as part of a future Palestinian state.
“The transfer by Israel from parts of the civilian population itself to the territory they occupy is equivalent to a war crime,” UN High Commissioner Volker Turk said in a statement that accompanies the report, asking the international community to take significant measures.
“Israel needs to immediately and completely cease all settlement activities and remove all settlers, interrupt forced transfer from the Palestinian population and prevent and punish attacks from their security forces and settlers,” he added.
Israel left the UN Human Rights Council earlier this year, claiming a chronic anti-Israel bias. His diplomatic mission in Geneva did not immediately respond to a request for commentary on the report.
About 700,000 Israeli settlers live between 2.7 million Palestinians in West Bank and East Jerusalem, lands that Israel won in 1967.
Most countries considers Israeli settlements illegal in war -taken territory. Israel disputes this by citing historical and biblical ties with the earth.
This content was originally published in Israel is accelerating the Bank’s annexation with settlements, says UN on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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