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| Israel operations worsening 'calamitous' West Bank situation: UN | |
| 2024-09-10 | |
Opening a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Volker Turk decried soaring violence in the West Bank amid major Israeli raids. "In the West Bank, deadly and destructive operations, some at a scale not witnessed in the last two decades, are worsening a calamitous situation there, already aggravated by serious settler violence," Turk told the council. Related: Volker Turk 06/12/2024 Sudan criticizes UN human rights chief over response to Wad Al-Nurah massacre Volker Turk 06/04/2024 Watchdog Group Accuses U.N. Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur of Taking Payments from Activist Groups Volker Turk 05/07/2024 Israel begins Rafah offensive after rejecting Hamas ceasefire ploy | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 The 'Turks' made it up to the gates of Vienna twice. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-09-10 10:01 |
| #3 Doesn't his name mean 'Turkish people'? It does. But there is a German family name convention — family names resulting from a Napoleonic command — that connects to where the family came there from. Another connects to appearance. One branch of my mother’s family is also named Turk, supposedly because they came to Germany from Turkey… or possibly because they had dark hair. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-09-10 09:41 |
| #2 ^https://www.google.com/search?q=Volker+Turk&rlz=1C1CHZL_enIL842IL842&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-09-10 08:57 |
| #1 A google search for Volker Turk turns up zip. Doesn't his name mean 'Turkish people'? |
| Posted by: S MAI 2024-09-10 08:00 |