Qatar- UN Slams Israel's Punitive Measures Against Palestinians

6/12/2016 3:59:30 AM

(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) New York, June 11 (QNA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the punitive security measures implemented by Israel in the aftermath of the Tel Aviv shooting as constituting collective punishment against Palestinians.
"We are deeply concerned at the response of the Israeli authorities, which includes measures that may amount to collective punishment and will only increase the sense of injustice and frustration felt by Palestinians in this very tense time," Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said in a statement released by the United Nations.
"The measures taken against the broader population punish not the perpetrators of the shooting, but tens -- maybe hundreds -- of thousands of innocent Palestinians," Ma''an News Agency quoted him as saying.
More than 200 Palestinians have been killed in the surge of violence, which has been largely characterized by small-scale Palestinian attacks on Israeli military targets and settlers. (QNA)

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