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Saturday, 27 June_A UN rights investigator has urged the European Union to adopt measures in a bid to prevent or punish any Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank, less than a week before the Tel Aviv regime intends to implement its much-condemned plan to annex further parts of the Palestinian territory.
In a statement on Friday, Michael Lynk, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory said the European bloc should back up its warnings against Israeli plans with “a decisive menu of counter-measures.”
He was apparently pointing to possible economic, trade or other sanctions against Tel Aviv. The EU has already said that the annexation must not go unchallenged.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has time and again announced that he would begin cabinet-level discussions for annexing more areas in the occupied West Bank on July 1, in accordance with US President Donald Trump's the so-called deal of the century.
Trump’s scheme, unveiled in January, largely gives in to Israel’s demands while creating a Palestinian state with limited control over its own security and borders, enshrining the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s “capital” and allowing the regime to annex settlements in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley.
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