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March 22, 2011

U.N. Investigator Accuses Israel of "Ethnic Cleansing" 
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A top United Nations investigator has called on the U.N. Human Rights
Council to investigate Israel's continued expansion of illegal
settlements in the West Bank.
The U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian
Territories Richard Falk described Israel's actions as a form of ethnic
cleansing.

Richard Falk: "As the report illustrates the continued pattern of
settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, combined with forceful eviction
of long-residing Palestinians, are creating an intolerable situation
that can only be described in its cumulative impact, as a form of ethnic
cleansing."



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