JERUSALEM, 03 February 2022, (TON): Amnesty International on Tuesday labelled Israel an apartheid state that treats Palestinians as an inferior racial group, joining the assessment of other rights groups which the Jewish state vehemently rejects.
Amnesty’s secretary-general Agnes Callamard said “Israel’s cruel policies of segregation, dispossession and exclusion across all territories under its control clearly amount to apartheid.”
“Whether they live in Gaza, east Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, or Israel itself, Palestinians are treated as an inferior racial group and systematically deprived of their rights.”
Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid strongly rejected the claims as “divorced from reality” and charged that “Amnesty quotes lies spread by terrorist organisations”.
A year ago, Israeli-based rights group B’Tselem drew fire when it asserted that Israeli policies had been designed to enforce “Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea” and met the definition of “apartheid”.
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