The U.N. human rights office says in a report published Friday that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime. New Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are growing at a record rate, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has warned. The Human Rights Council on Friday released a report saying that the expansion of settlements “amount to the transfer by Israel of its own civilian population into the territories that it occupies, which amounts to a war crime under international law. Here