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UN: Israeli order to evict thousands of Palestinians amounts to forcible transfer
The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings, warned that the current Israeli Supreme Court’s refusal of requisitions against displacement charges of the citizens of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank amounts to forcible transfer.
“The decision affects over one thousand Palestinians including 500 children in the occupied West Bank and allows for the eviction of the residents,” she reported Hastings in a statement. “As all domestic legal remedies have been exhausted, the community is now unprotected and at risk of imminent displacement.”
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator said that “such evictions resulting in displacement could amount to a forcible transfer, contrary to resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and international law.”
She repeated the calls of the United Nations Secretary-General on Israel “to cease demolitions and evictions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in line with its obligations under international law.”
The Palestinian presidency has also strongly condemned the Israeli court’s ruling.
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