HRW: Palestinian communities stifled by Israel
Israel systematically stifles the development of Palestinian communities in the West Bank and east Jerusalem while fostering the growth of Jewish settlements on those lands, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report Sunday, urging the US to slash aid to Israel because of "blatantly discriminatory" practices.
No security rationale or other legitimate reason can explain the "vast scale of differential treatment," said the 166-page report, which compared several Palestinian communities with neighboring settlements. (AP)
