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UN Calls ’’Israel’’ to End Demolitions, Settlements

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

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

UN Calls ’’Israel’’ to End Demolitions, Settlements

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

This comes as Palestinians have refused to return to direct negotiations with "Israel" because of "Israeli" settlement escalating move in the occupied territories.
The report was released just ahead of a visit to "al-Quds" and Ramallah next week by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Gaylard said "the demolition figures represent a dramatic increase on previous years and that tens of thousands of people remain under threat of dispossession, demolition and displacement."

Gaylard said he went on Thursday to the village of Anata near al-Quds where seven Palestinian homes were demolished this week.

"He was informed that bulldozers and troops had arrived in the middle of the night of 23 January and that 52 people, including 29 children, had been forced from their homes, which were then completely destroyed," said a UN statement.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org