UNITED NATIONS - Warning that Israels settlement activities on occupied lands violate international law, A U.N. committee on Palestinian rights has called on the world community to take urgent and decisive action against the continued illegal Israeli actions. Israels violation of international law goes far beyond the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and may affect conflict situations in other parts of the world by discrediting, disregarding and seriously undermining the existing international legal system, the UN Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People said in a statement on Tuesday. Israels temporary suspension of settlement activity falls far short of its obligations under the Road Map the internationally endorsed plan for a two-State solution to the conflict requiring it to freeze all settlement activity, including natural growth, and to immediately dismantle settlement outposts erected since March 2001, it added. The Bureau fully supported the position of the Palestinian leadership that a resumption of political dialogue with Israel would be meaningless due to continued settlement activity, noting that even Israels temporary halt in construction had been further undercut by the explicit exclusion of occupied East Jerusalem. It reiterated that Israel is fully bound by the provisions of international humanitarian law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, which stipulates that the Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. It called on the parties to the Convention to take, individually or collectively, the measures they deem appropriate to ensure respect for the Convention, including by convening a conference to address the issue. The Bureau also voiced great concern at the wave of recent settler-related violent incidents and provocations, citing almost daily reports of attacks against Palestinian civilians. Settlers have been involved in shooting at Palestinian civilians, damaging their property, vandalizing places of worship, uprooting trees, burning farmland and destroying harvests, it said. They intimidate, harass and physically assault Palestinian men, women and children. Last weeks burning of a mosque in the village of Yasuf, north-east of Salfit, is just another vivid example of settler crimes. The lack of adequate Israeli law enforcement, bordering on permissiveness, when it comes to settler violence, is fuelling tensions and could lead to another escalation of the conflict.