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       United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk addresses the high-level segment of the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council on February 27, 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland.

      UN Human Rights Chief Condemns Israeli Minister's​ 'Unfathomable' Threat to Huwara

      Noting that communities like Huwara are often targeted by Israeli settlers, Amnesty's regional director urged Israel "to remove all settlements, which are war crimes under international law, and to dismantle its system of apartheid against Palestinians."

      Jessica Corbett
      Mar 03, 2023

      United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday called out Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich for saying that Huwara, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, "needs to be wiped out" and "the state of Israel should do it."

      Smotrich's comment Wednesday came after Israeli settlers on Sunday rampaged through Huwara, killing a 37-year-old Palestinian man—mass violence that came just hours after a Palestinian gunman murdered a pair of Israeli brothers, who were 19 and 21.

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      Conservative US Jewish Groups Issue Rare Rebuke of Israeli Settler Violence

      But attacks viewed by the Rabbinical Assembly and Orthodox Union as an aberration are seen by human rights groups as inherent in Israeli policies and actions.

      Brett Wilkins
      Feb 28, 2023

      The leading Conservative and Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States on Monday issued rare condemnations of Sunday's deadly rampage by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank, joining U.S. and Israeli human rights groups in decrying the violence.

      The Rabbinical Assembly, the New York-based international association of Conservative rabbis, published a statement saying that "we are in pain and join the condolences to the families of those killed, among them the Yaniv family and the Al-Aqatsch family," a reference to 19-year-old Yigal Yaakov Yaniv, one of two Israeli brothers murdered by a Palestinian gunman on Sunday, and Sameh Al-Aqatsch, a 37-year-old Palestinian man killed by rampaging settlers in Hawara hours later.

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