Un To Criticise Israel Over Gaza

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition, BBC News
Sun, 03/22/2009 - 9:22pm

A UN human rights investigator, Richard Falk, is to question the legality of Israel's Gaza incursion in a new report.

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