he UN Human Rights Chief, on Friday, criticised Israel's hard-line Finance Minister for remarks in which he called for the Palestinian village of Huwara to be erased, describing the comments as "an unfathomable statement of incitement to violence and hostility", Reuters reports.

He was referring to remarks by Israel's Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, the head of a pro-settler party in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nationalist-religious coalition, on Wednesday, amid a spate of deadly Palestinian attacks and Israeli settler violence in the Occupied West Bank.