GENEVA / PNN /

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories today urged international protection for the Palestinians in light of the rise in settlers’ attacks.

“Palestinians under Israeli occupation DO need protection. Brutality, coming either from Israeli settlers or from the army will not stop, simply because the system is not designed to protect the Palestinians. Rather the contrary,” she stressed in a tweet.

“Mere words of condemnation are meaningless,” said the UN Special Rapporteur.