UN Committee on Palestinian Rights Calls for Action to End Israeli Settlements

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–17 January 2011 – A United Nations committee on Palestinian rights today called on the international community to take steps to compel Israel to end its “illegal” settlement activity in occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, warning that such actions preclude the possibility of peace.

“The future of the peace process hangs in the balance,” the Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People said in a…