Senior officials call on Israel to halt West Bank demolitions and respect international law

The United Nations

Three high-level UN officials on Friday issued a statement calling for Israel to end demolitions in the occupied West Bank, after meeting with members of a Bedouin community ousted from their homes earlier this week in the northern Jordan Valley, while their belongings were "seized or destroyed".

After their meeting with the Palestinian Bedouins from Humsa al Bqai'a on Thursday, Sarah Muscroft, head of the UN's humanitarian agency in the occupied territory, James Heenan, head of the UN Human Rights Office (OCHA) there and Lucia Elmi, UNICEF

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