RAMALLAH (AFP/Reuters) - Israels 42-year occupation of the Palestinian territories that has followed on from the 1967 Six Day War shames the world, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said on Friday. It is a shame upon the international community to have tolerated the continuation of the most hideous colonisation for 42 years as this occupation continues to consolidate itself with the construction of a wall, of barriers and of settlements, Erakat told journalists. He was speaking on the anniversary of the Arab-Israeli war, which broke out on June 5, 1967. During the six days of fighting, Israel seized the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, from Jordan; the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt and the Golan Heights from Syria. Today, forty per cent of the West Bank is under the control of the Israeli empires colonisation, Erakat said. He said that since that since Israel occupied the Palestinian territories, it destroyed more than 23,000 homes and expelled more than 8,000 Palestinians from east Jerusalem. In addition, he said Israeli had carried more than 650,000 arrests of Palestinians from the time of the occupation and that another 4,000 were killed since the beginning of the second intifada (uprising) in 2000. Erakat hailed Barack Obamas address to the Muslim world in Cairo on Thursday, in which the US President expressed support for the creation of a Palestinian state and he sharply criticised Israels reaction to the speech. Israelis ... have said nothing about a two-state solution or a freeze of settlements, Erakat said, referring to an existing US policy that Obama reiterated. Any solution in the region must be based on the creation of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders and the end of the occupation and settlements, he added. Meanwhile, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian on Friday in a confrontation with stone-throwing protesters in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian hospital officials said. Medics said Aqel Srour, 35, was hit in the chest by a live bullet and another protester was wounded when soldiers fired at protesters in Nilin, a village near the city of Ramallah. Srour died minutes later, Mohammad Shahwan, a doctor on the ambulance called to the scene, told Reuters. An Israeli military spokesman said troops had opened fire when protesters threw stones at them in the village, but would not confirm whether the troops had used live ammunition. Nilin is the scene of weekly protests against the continuing construction of an Israeli barrier that has cut through the village. Israel says the barrier it has built along its boundary with the West Bank, territory it captured in a 1967 war, is needed to keep bombers from infiltrating its towns. Palestinians denounce the network of fencing and concrete walls which cut deeply into the West Bank in spots such as Nilin, as a land grab that denies them territory they want for a future state. In 2004 the World Court ruled the barrier was illegal.