UN rights chief Volker Turk has raised serious concerns about ‘ethnic cleansing’ by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza. (EPA Images pic)UNITED NATIONS: UN rights chief Volker Turk said Wednesday he hopes a new Israeli government will "change course massively" and respect international law, as the country's political future hung in the balance after hard-fought elections.
"The message is: don't continue the current course of warfare where you think you are above international law, because I think that's what we have frankly seen in the current environment," he told reporters in New York.
"Israel has its obligations under international law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and they need to respect them, and I hope that the next government will do precisely that and change course massively," the Austrian diplomat added.
