Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, has announced that he will work for the removal of a report by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), which accuses Israeli security forces of using disproportionate force against Palestinian Authority residents and in some cases of “extrajudicial executions.” It also accuses Israel of “torture or ill-treatment of Palestinian children” and “deprivation of basic legal safeguards for administrative detainees, isolation and solitary confinement of detainees, including minors, punishment and ill-treatment of hunger strikers.”
Danon said, “This is yet another blood libel against the State of Israel. Just as we succeeded in having the previous preposterous report removed, we will fight relentlessly against this blatantly false distortion of the truth as well.”