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Written by Press TV
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
Israel is to bar a UN official, appointed to investigate Human Rights abuses
in Israel and Palestine, from entering the occupied lands.
Israeli foreign ministry stated on Tuesday that it will bar the UN official from
entering the occupied territories after the UN official compared the Zionist
regime to the Nazis and refused to retract his statements.
The official, Prof. Richard Falk, is scheduled to occupy his post with the
United Nations Human Rights Council in May.
Israeli officials said that he will be denied visa to enter the occupied
Palestine at least until the second meeting of the Human Rights Council in
September, Israeli online daily Haaretz reports.
The Zionist regime intends to ask the Security Council to expand the UN envoy's
mission to include investigation of human right abuses carried by Palestinians
against Israelis, according to International Middle East Media Center.
The current mandate of the envoy only includes investigating human rights abuses
and violations by the Zionist regime in the Palestinian territories.
The Zionist regime also intends to express its disapproval of Falk appointment
as UN investigator.
A spokesperson of the Israeli foreign ministry stated that Falk already believes
that the Zionist regime is acting like the Nazis, therefore it is "unfair to
have him as an investigator in the area".
On Tuesday, the BBC posted on its website statements from Falk in which he
defended his position and said that his last summer statements equated Israel's
treatment of Palestinians with the Nazi treatment of the Jews during the
Holocaust.
He also told the BBC that the Zionist regime is always shielded from
international criticism in spite of its illegal acts against the Palestinians.
Source: Press TV
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