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Tuesday 16th June 2015
‘Israeli authorities have admitted they blocked a UN human rights
envoy from entering the occupied Gaza area for a second year in a row,
just as a UN report on last year’s Gaza war is about to be made public.
“We didn’t allow this visit,” said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman
Emmanuel Nahshon, as cited by AFP. The visit by the UN special
rapporteur on human rights, Makarim Wibisono, was due to take place last
week.
However, according to Nahshon, the decision doesn’t go against
Israel’s commitments to the UN. “Israel cooperates with all the
international commissions and all rapporteurs, except when the mandate
handed to them is anti-Israeli and Israel has no chance to make itself
heard.”‘
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