Reply #77: Looks like this may go forward

[oberliner]

UN human rights investigators leaving for Gaza next week

Geneva - UN investigators will travel to the Gaza Strip and Israel next week to investigate possible human rights abuses in Israel's recent offensive, a spokesman for the council said Friday. The former chief prosecutor of the international courts for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Richard Goldstone, will head the mission.

Late last year, Israeli authorities refused the entry of Richard Falk, the UN`s expert on human rights in the Palestinian territories.

UN officials hope the new mission, which has a mandate to look into abuses against Israelis as well, will be better received.

The Goldstone team has received positive signals from Israeli and Palestinian authorities, UN spokesman Rolando Gomez said.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/266921,un-human-rights-investigators-leaving-for-gaza-next-week.html