UN condemns Israeli minister's call for Palestinian village to be wiped out

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories has issued an alarm over an Israeli minister's call for an entire Palestinian village to be wiped out Volker Turk denounced it, calling it incitement to violence and hostility." "The situation in the occupied Palestinian territory is a tragedy, a tragedy especially for the Palestinian people," Turk said when he delivered a report on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory Elsewhere in his remarks, Turk called on the Israeli regime to end its occupation and settlement activities in the Palestinian territories. regardless of the level of threat, and sometimes even as a first measure rather than a last resort," Turk said. "My office has also documented several cases of apparent extrajudicial targeted killings by members of the Israeli Defense Forces," he said. For this violence to end, the occupation must end," he added. "In the near future there must be an end to settlements in the occupied country. And in the foreseeable future..." Turk pointed out.