Israel’s crackdown in Hebron raises ‘serious concerns of ethnic cleansing,’ UN rights chief warns

NEW YORK CITY: The UN’s human rights chief warned on Monday that Israeli threats to “empty and erase entire neighborhoods” in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron raised serious concerns of ethnic cleansing, as he condemned an operation he said had forcibly displaced more than 2,000 Palestinians in just three days. Volker Turk said that since Friday, as part of an “aggressive operation,” Israel had demolished homes and commercial properties, and stripped residents of their ability to move fre

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