BBC: UN envoy hits Israel ‘apartheid’

Syndicated from Tadamon on Sun, 2007-02-25
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By Alan Johnston, BBC News, GazaA UN human rights envoy has compared Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories to elements of apartheid.The UN’s Special Rapporteur, John Dugard, describes the regime as being designed to dominate and systematically oppress the occupied population.Mr Dugard is a South African professor of international law assigned to monitor Israeli human [...]