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UN rights expert says Israeli settlements a 'war crime'

Israel blasted the report as “the latest one-sided and biased report against Israel."
Michael Lynk

A top human rights expert for the United Nations called Friday on the international community to designate the establishment of Israeli settlements as a war crime. 

On Friday, Michael Lynk, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, called the settlements “the engine of Israel’s 54-year-old occupation, the longest in the modern world.” 

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