Israel prevents Palestinian development in some parts of the West Bank and East Jerusalem busy pouring financing on the Jewish settlements, the Group Human Rights Watch said Sunday.
Its 166 pages report by Human Rights Watch based on Israeli policies in the areas of the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority holds not domination of provisional peace processes and annexed Jerusalem-East, Israel after his capture in a war of 1967.
"Israeli policy in the West Bank severely discriminate against resident Palestinians, depriving them of necessities providing amenities sumptuous Jewish settlements," said the organization based in New York.
Asked about the report, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Human Rights Watch has repeatedly demonstrated anti-Israeli bias.
"Unfortunately for years a series of documented cases showed Human Rights Watch reports to have clearly been polluted by an agenda anti-Israel,", said spokesman Mark Regev.
A Palestinian farmer harvest cucumbers in a field near the West Bank town of Jenin on 4 May 2010.
The report highlights cases in which he told Palestinian villages in the West Bank are denied the possibility of developing electricity and water and road running, infrastructure while nearby settlements had daily conveniences daily in place.
A case cited by the report was Jubbet al-Dhib Palestinian village near Bethlehem. Human Rights Watch said the village of 150 people can be reached only by a dirt track and Israel refuses to connect to an Israeli grid.
The small colony of Sde, just 350 metres later, has dedicated paved road and all modern amenities, the report added. Fifty people live in the colony.
Human Rights Watch said that Israel has cited problems of safety as a reason for any difference in treatment.
But Carroll Bogert, a spokesman for the group, said that Israel was to "systematic discrimination merely because of (Palestinian) race, ethnicity, and national origin, without electricity, water, schools and access to roads."
Approximately 2.4 million Palestinians live on the West Bank alongside over 400,000 settlers.
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