GENEVA, June 15 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A U.N human rights expert on Friday condemned the Israeli army's "serial" destruction of homes and a practice of "walking through the walls" during recent incursions into Palestinian territories.

In a report on the situation in occupied Palestinian territories, Miloon Kothari, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, slated a wide range of violations related to Palestinian living conditions.

"The policies of belligerent occupation and collective punishment have been marked by land confiscations, punitive house demolitions, implantation of settlements, the dismemberment of Palestinian territories through the building of bypass roads ... and the control or theft of water and other natural resources in the occupied territories," he said.

Kothari's recommendations included reparations for Palestinians whose homes and land had been confiscated, damaged or destroyed.

He said he was ready to set up an agreed method of evaluating the costs of housing rights violations.

The U.N. special rapporteur said all the Israeli violations aimed to consolidate land occupied in 1967.

"It is ironic that the methods used to consolidate occupation have accelerated under the guise of the Oslo peace accords," he added.

The U.N. expert also accused Israel of "manipulating the ethnic character of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip" with the settlements.

"A particularly destructive strategy has involved the use of missiles, tanks, and the Israeli army's practice of 'walking through the walls' used to serially damage homes," during incursions in February and March, he added.

Kothari said the international community had a duty to intervene and called for an international protection force that would protect Palestinian homes and land as its priority.