UN says Israel's West Bank plans would accelerate 'dispossession of Palestinians'

The plans include allowing Jewish Israelis to buy West Bank land directly, and extending greater Israeli control over areas where the Palestinian Authority exercises power. Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the decisions by Israel's security cabinet were the latest in a string of measures to annex Palestinian lands. "This is yet another step by the Israeli authorities towards rendering a viable Palestinian state impossible, in violation of the Palestinian...