http://www.euronews.com/ Israel has cut ties with the UN Human Rights Council over its investigation into Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The
decision means the West Bank fact-finding team announced last week will
not be allowed to enter the territory or Israel. It comes after Israeli
leaders condemned the UN body, accusing it of being biased and
hypocritical.
"They systematically and serially make all kinds of
decisions
and condemnations against Israel without even symbolically considering
our positions," sais Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor.
In
response, the Palestinian Authority called on the international
community to come down hard on Israel. Its spokesman Ghassan Khatib
said: "Israel's decision challenges the international community and they
must respond, not only in words but in a practical way, to force Israel
to stop violenting Palestinian rights."
Israel's Supreme Court
appears to agree. It has given Jewish settlers until August to evacuate
Migron the biggest illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank.
A
government-backed deal would have let them stay on the Palestinian-owned
land until 2015, but the court dismissed that delay extended the
deadline beyond the end of March, when settlers were supposed to leave
under an earlier ruling.
