Israel Won't Cooperate With UN Probe of West Bank Settlements

Israel Won't Cooperate With UN Probe of West Bank Settlements
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Slams Idea of Probing West Bank on Principle

by Jason Ditz, July 06, 2012 .
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Israeli officials today reiterated their 'outrage' at the United Nations
Human Rights Council for deciding to probe illegal settlement activity
in the occupied West Bank, adding that they would never cooperate with
any probes and would bar any members of the mission from entering the
territory.

The UN appointed a panel of three experts to conduct a fact-finding
mission on how settlements, illegal under international law, impact the
Palestinian civilians living under Israeli occupation.

Israeli official statements blasted the panel as inherently flawed,
insisting that any investigation of Israel would have to be 'biased' and
that the UN should focus its investigations exclusively on
'non-democratic countries.'

Israel had severed all ties with the human rights council months ago
when the notion was initially raised. The probe is expected to focus
only on the occupation's impact on Palestinians and not its legality,
since there seems to be no real question that the occupation is illegal
and that the construction of settlement in occupied territory is a
violation of the Geneva Conventions.
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