By Nina Larson, AFP
Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP
The United Nations has said decades-long discrimination and segregation of Palestinians by Israel in the West Bank were intensifying, and called on the country to end its "apartheid system".
In a new report, slammed by Israel, the UN 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," UN rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement.
"Whether accessing water, school, rushing to hospital, visiting family or friends, or harvesting olives -- every
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