U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering voiced strong American disapproval last week of what he implied were harsh Israeli policies toward Palestinians in the administered territories.
Noting indications of growing Palestinian frustration, the American envoy told a Hebrew University audience that “The U.S. has made clear that it remains deeply opposed to the use of deportation, to administrative detention and to the destruction or sealing of homes, particularly where that takes place without due process, without the provision of trial, without the production of evidence.”
Pickering observed that there have been 15 killings in the territories so far this year. The most recent was the kidnap murder of an eight-year-old child whose battered body was found last Thursday in a cave near his home settlement of Elon Moreh in the West Bank.
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