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Ioa denies entry to un special rapporteur

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Press Release
Date: 15 December 2008

Israeli Occupation Authorities Denies Entry of UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories 
PCHR strongly condemns the decision taken by Israeli occupation authorities to prevent Professor Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), from entering the OPT on Sunday, 14 December 2008, and departing him from Ben Gurion Airport on Monday morning. PCHR calls upon the international community, including the UN Secretary-General, to denounce the position taken by Israeli occupation authorities, to stop dealing with Israel as a state above law, and to immediately take necessary steps than can ensure Israel’s compliance to international humanitarian law and human rights law.

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Thousands desert somalia forces

3. ‘Thousands’ desert Somalia forces

 BBC  Friday, 12 December 2008

More than 80% of Somalia’s soldiers and police – about 15,000 members – have deserted, some taking weapons, uniforms and vehicles, the UN says.

 The head of the UN monitoring group on Somalia, Dumisani Kumalo, said Islamist insurgents got many of their weapons and ammunition from the deserters.

 The head of the Somali police rejected the UN’s report.

 

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No ceasefire without lifting the siege

 
Haniya, no ceasefire without lifting the siege 14 December, 2008 From Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem
 
 In a triumphant speech marking Hamas’s 21st anniversary, Ismael Haniya, the Prime Minister of the Gaza-based Palestinian government, said the Islamic movement and other Palestinian resistance groups wouldn’t extend the present fragile truce with Israel unless the Israeli occupation army lifted its harsh blockade of the Gaza Strip and allowed Gazans free movement from and to the coastal territory.

 The six-month-old truce, or “the calm,” is slated to expire on Friday, amid fears that violence and bloodshed on a larger scale would brake out in the absence of a new agreement or understanding to renew the ceasefire. He pointed out that last month alone, the Israeli occupation army killed more than 20 Palestinians in addition to tightening the blockade of the Gaza Strip.

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