Former UN Secretary-General: How Israel Treats Palestinians is an example of apartheid.
The former Secretary General of the United Nations said that the behavior of the Israeli regime towards the Palestinians can be an example of apartheid.
Ban Ki-moon, the former Secretary General of the United Nations, said on Thursday that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians may be an example of apartheid.
Ban Ki-moon, who traveled to the West Asia region, said in an interview with the Associated Press on Thursday that Israel is moving towards apartheid by moving away from the hope of establishing a Palestinian state alongside itself.
Ban’s three-day visit to the region coincided with the violence of the Zionist regime against the Palestinians and exposed him to more obvious realities than during his tenure as the UN Secretary-General from 2007 to 2016.
He said he has seen signs such as the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the creation of more restrictions against Palestinians, which show that an apartheid system is taking root in Israel.
Expressing concern over the possibility of the two-state solution being “diminished”, Ban said: “I think the situation has worsened. I am thinking that, as many people say, these behaviors may be an example of apartheid.”
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis live in Jewish settlements built by the Zionist regime after the 1967 war and the occupation of Palestinian lands in the West Bank and East of Jerusalem.
The United Nations and most countries of the world consider the settlements of the Zionist regime illegal because this regime occupied these lands in the 1967 war and based on the Geneva Convention, any construction by the occupier in the occupied lands is prohibited.
Palestinians seek to form an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with Jerusalem as its capital. They also want Israel to withdraw from the territories occupied in 1967, but Israel refuses to return to the pre-Six Day War borders.
Many human rights groups consider the actions of the Zionist regime and its 56-year occupation of the West Bank as an example of an apartheid system and say that Tel Aviv treats Palestinians as second-class citizens.
Ban Ki-moon has traveled to the region on behalf of a group called “Elders”. This group consists of former statesmen and political activists who work to promote human rights around the world.
In November of last year, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights Violations in Israel and Palestine announced that it will investigate the accusations of apartheid against the Zionist regime.
The Zionist regime refused to cooperate with this commission and did not allow its members to enter occupied Palestine or allow access to Palestinian-controlled areas in the West Bank and Gaza.
Attitudes about apartheid of the Zionist regime have become more prominent, especially in the new cabinet of “Benjamin Netanyahu”.
Yefar Ban took place in a situation where the West Bank has been the scene of the most brutal violence by the Zionist regime against the Palestinian people.
The operations of the Zionist regime since the beginning of 2022 have led to the martyrdom of at least 300 Palestinians.
In the latest case of violence by the Zionist regime in the West Bank, 5 Palestinians, including a 15-year-old girl, were martyred.
Ban Ki-moon said in an interview on Thursday that Israel appears to be resorting to disproportionate violence in its attacks on the West Bank.
