Israel's housing policies in occupied East Jerusalem amount to 'racial segregation and discrimination' against Palestinians, UN experts say
Israel's housing policy, which prioritises zoning for Israeli settlements and limits housing options for Palestinians,"clearly amounts to segregation based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin," UN experts say.
The experts made their assessment on Thursday based on reports that Palestinians have been subject to "discriminatory zoning and planning." "Racially segregated settlements have had significant and lasting consequences on the standards of living of the Palestinian people," they noted. "We have received reports that protesters have been subjected to indiscriminate and excessive use of force, arbitrary detention, torture, and collective punishment," they said.
They called for an end to the "occupying power's ongoing impunity for excessive use of force" against Palestinians in protests, search-and-arrest procedures, and at checkpoints.
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