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UN council appoints three to probe Israeli settlements
2012-07-07
[Dawn] The UN's top human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
 body has appointed three independent experts to conduct a fact-finding mission on how Israel's West Bank settlements affect Paleostinians.

The president of the UN Human Rights Council, Uruguay Ambassador Laura Dupuy Lasserre, on Friday named three women to the panel: Christine Chanet of La Belle France, Unity Dow of Botswana and Asma Jahangir of Pakistain.

Dupuy Lasserre said their mission will be to look how the Israeli settlements impact "the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Paleostinian people."

The Geneva-based 47-nation council passed a resolution in March to establish such a probe.

The UN already considers Israeli settlements illegal under international law. Some 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war, along with Gazoo.
Update: Israel announces won't cooperate:
Said Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor, "The fact finding mission will find no cooperation in Israel and its members will not be allowed to enter Israel and the territories. Its existence embodies the inherent distortion that typifies the UNHRC treatment of Israel and the hijacking of the important human rights agenda by non democratic countries," he said.
"Go back to your fancy hotels and fancier restaurants in Switzerland," he added. "We're too busy to deal with your nonsense just now."
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