World gave Israel ‘licence to torture Palestinians’: UN expert

The world has given Israel “a licence to torture Palestinians”, a UN expert said Monday, with life in the occupied territories “a continuum of physical and mental suffering”. Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, said “torture has effectively become state policy” in Israel. “Israel […] The post World gave Israel ‘licence to torture Palestinians’: UN expert appeared first on Digital Journal.