United Nations condemns "escalation" of violence and land annexation in the occupied West Bank

The United Nations condemned on Wednesday the “escalation” of settler violence and land annexation, two years after the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is illegal.

In a statement, Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that “as attacks by Israeli settlers and the establishment of settlements and outposts reach record highs, other countries must act urgently and in unison to halt the ongoing killings and dispossession of the Palestinian people, and to end the Israeli occupation.”