UN: Israeli actions in West Bank worsening 'calamitous' situation there

Israel's actions in the occupied West Bank are worsening a "calamitous" situation, the UN rights chief said Monday.

Volker Turk decried soaring violence in the West Bank while opening a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

"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.