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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211;  Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:51AM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc">United Nations High Commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay</div>
<div id="divLead">UN  High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has denounced Israeli  illegal settlements built on occupied Palestinian lands as “clear-cut  violations of human rights on a very large scale.”</div>
<p>At the end of a six-day visit to the region, Pillay criticized  Israel for ignoring the harm done to Palestinians by its settlement  policy and the construction of a vast West Bank barrier.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have been struck by the complacency with which the  entirely-avoidable predicament of Palestinians affected by the wall and  settlements is treated by Israeli authorities with whom I have discussed  these issues,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>“They tend to be brushed aside as if they are minor matters. They  are not. They are clear-cut violations of human rights on a very large  scale,&#8221; she said, describing how she had met a man whose house is  entirely surrounded by a Jewish settlement.</p>
<p>Pillay also called for a halt on all settlement-related activities  in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), as well as actions to coerce Palestinians  to leave the area, including evictions, demolitions, displacements and  the cancellation of residency permits on a discriminatory basis.</p>
<p>“East Jerusalem (al-Quds) is being steadily drained of its  Palestinian inhabitants, in clear-cut defiance of Security Council  resolutions,” she said.</p>
<p>Israel seized East al-Quds along with the West Bank from Jordan in  the 1967 Six-Day War, and later annexed it in defiance of calls from the  international community.</p>
<p>It has, so far, ignored calls by the Palestinians and the United  States for a halt to settlement activities in the West Bank and, in  particular, al-Quds, which it claims as its &#8220;eternal, indivisible&#8221;  capital.</p>
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