The former head of the Israeli Central Intelligence Agency (Mossad), Tamir Pardo, said today, Wednesday, in statements to the American Associated Press, that Israel implements an apartheid regime in the occupied West Bank.

Pardo has become the latest former Israeli official to conclude that Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank amounts to apartheid, in reference to the apartheid regime in South Africa that ended in 1994, to join a growing list of retired Israeli "security officials" who confirm the practice of The occupation authorities are an apartheid regime against the Palestinians.