The United Nations on Wednesday urged Israel to end its decades-long "apartheid system" against Palestinians amid intensifying discrimination and segregation in the occupied West Bank.
In a new report, slammed by Israel, the U.N. rights office said "systematic discrimination" against Palestinians across the occupied Palestinian territories had "drastically deteriorated" in recent years.
"There is a systematic asphyxiation of the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank," U.N. rights chief Volker TΓΌrk said in a statement.
"Whether accessing water, school, rushing to hospital, visiting family or friends, or harvesting olives β every aspect of life for Palestinians in the West Bank is controlled and curtailed by Israe
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