UN human rights experts warned Friday that “irreparable harm” is being inflicted on Jerusalem as violence escalates across the region and the war in Gaza spills into the occupied West Bank, Anadolu reports. “Under the cover of an existential war against the Palestinians, Israel is accelerating measures that alter Jerusalem’s demographic composition, religious character and legal status,” the experts said in a statement. The statement was endorsed by several UN human rights experts and special rapporteurs covering the occupied Palestinian territory, human rights, racial discrimination, food, and other related rights. They warned that the measures are “destroying the remnants of the pluralistic fabric that Jerusalem has represented for centuries, for Muslims, Christians and Jews.” “What is being done to this […]]]>
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