Jurist Genocide in Gaza ‘spills into the West Bank’ UN experts warn

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A group of UN experts warned Friday that the genocide in Gaza is spilling into the West Bank as a wider war engulfs the region.

The experts argue that Israeli policy is designed to coerce Palestinians to leave. Between 2021 and 2025 there have been at least 11,555 arrests amid claims of arbitrary detention, 2,386 deportation decisions, and 1,732 demolitions.

The experts also highlight Israel’s restriction of Palestinian’s access to participate in religious life, especially during Ramadan. In 2025, there were 73,871 settler incursions into the Al-Aqsa mosque compound. Additionally, Al-Aqsa mosque has been closed to practitioners for eight days following the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

The group of experts including Francesca Albanese stated:

Under the cover of an existential war against the Palestinians, Israel is accelerating measures that alter Jerusalem’s demographic composition, religious character and legal status, destroying the remnants of the pluralistic fabric that Jerusalem has represented for centuries, for Muslims, Christians and Jews… What is being done to this world symbol of spiritual coexistence and shared heritage is irreversible.

The warning urges immediate international action and calls on all states to refrain from recognizing or aiding the ongoing occupation of Palestinian territories. In July 2024, the International Court of Justice, in an advisory opinion, ruled that the Israeli continued occupation of Palestinian territories is unlawful. In the opinion, the court ruled that Israel must “cease immediately all new settlement activities, and… evacuate all settlers from the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”

Earlier this month, Amnesty International warned that Israeli authorities have intentionally implemented policies aimed at dispossessing Palestinians in the West Bank, rendering the occupied territory’s annexation irreversible. The United Nations Human Rights Council in a new report warned that Israeli policy and settler violence in the West Bank is aimed at uprooting Palestinian communities.

The experts who drafted the warning are; Francesca Albanese, Ben Saul, Ashwini K.P., Gina Romero, George Katrougalos, Tlaleng Mofokeng, Michael Fakhri, and Surya Deva. The eight are members of the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures are the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system. The experts are independent and work on a voluntary basis, not receiving a salary for their work.

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