“Together these events demonstrate a general and unacceptable Israeli disposition to use excessive force against Palestinians, who are already suffering from prolonged occupation,” he stated in a press statement issued in Geneva on Friday. “It is impossible to separate this pattern of excessive use of force against Palestinians from the indiscriminate use of force against civilians in Israe’s larger occupation policy, as illustrated by the cruel punitive blockade that has been imposed on the people of Gaza for more than three years and by the illegal manner in which Israel carried out attacks for three weeks on the defenseless population of Gaza two years ago,” added Falk.
issued by his spokesperson.
Falk also spoke out against the demolition. “This is part of an accelerating pattern in Jerusalem that consists of shifting the demographic balance to reinforce Israeli claims to control permanently the entire city,
making the creation of a viable Palestinian state, with its capital as East Jerusalem, virtually unattainable,” he stated.
“It is time for the international community to step in and offer this long vulnerable Palestinian population protection against the violence perpetrated by Israeli authorities,” he stressed.
Falk has been serving since 2008 in an independent and unpaid capacity as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights on Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
He reports to the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council.

January 15, 2011 
































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