Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories condemns sharp increase in Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37739&Cr=Israel&Cr1=

An independent United Nations expert has called on Israel to stop illegally demolishing Palestinian homes in the West Bank, including two apartment buildings in East Jerusalem where 150 people are about to be evicted, citing a recent surge in such actions. “This pattern of eviction, demolition, expansion of settlements, and settlers’ violent expropriation of Palestinian homes in the occupied East Jerusalem violates fundamental human rights, as well as provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention governing belligerent occupation,” UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Richard Falk said in a statement.