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2024-09-10 International-UN-NGOs

Israel operations worsening 'calamitous' West Bank situation: UN

No doubt.

[GEOTV] Major Israeli operations across the occupied West Bank are seriously worsening an already "calamitous" situation there that has been deepened by serious settler violence, the UN rights chief said Monday.

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.

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#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|| 2024-09-10 08:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2024-09-10 08:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2024-09-10 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 The 'Turks' made it up to the gates of Vienna twice.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-09-10 10:01|| 2024-09-10 10:01|| Front Page Top

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