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Israel Poised For Complete Annexation Of West Bank, UN Warns

• zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

"After years of creeping Israeli de facto annexation of the large swathes of the West Bank through settlement expansion, the creation of closed military zones and other measures, Israel appears to be getting closer to enacting legislation that will formally annex parts of the West Bank," UN official Michael Lynk said.

Lynk's warning was posted on the web site of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHRC) — the rights monitoring body that both the United States and Israel are boycotting, with the US recently stunning the council by announcing its pullout last month, citing a general anti-Israel bias.

The UN statement highlighted Israeli expansion: "This would amount to a profound violation of international law, and the impact of ongoing settlement expansion on human rights must not be ignored," Lynk continued. "This is my third mission to the region since I assumed the mandate in May 2016, and the reports I received this week have painted the bleakest picture yet of the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory," he said after returning from an information gathering mission to the region.


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