World gave Israel ‘licence to torture Palestinians’: UN expert
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GENEVA: The world has given Israel “a licence to torture Palestinians”, a UN expert said on Monday, with life in the occupied territories “a continuum of physical and mental suffering”. “Torture has effectively become state policy” in Israel, said Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. While presenting her latest report to the UN Human Rights C...
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GENEVA: The world has given Israel “a licence to torture Palestinians”, a UN expert said on Monday, with life in the occupied territories “a continuum of physical and mental suffering”. “Torture has effectively become st...