The report was prepared by John Dugard of South Africa, appointed by the UN to investigate Israeli civil rights violations - but not those of the Palestinian Authority.
Dugard's report states that last summer's Disengagement from Gaza by Israel was a "positive step," but that "Israel still effectively controls Gaza." Despite the destruction of all 21 Jewish communities there, the uprooting of 9,000 Jews from their homes, and the complete withdrawal of all Israeli military forces, Dugard says that Israel controls Gaza because it effects sonic booms and perpetrates occasional targeted killings from the air.
Yitzchak Levanon, Israel's U.N. ambassador in Geneva, responded that Dugard's allegations are "misinformed and inaccurate," and that his report is "guided by a clear political agenda, and bears little relation either to the facts or existing principles of international law." Levanon's response was e-mailed to The Associated Press.
In the Hevron section of the 22-page report to the UN, Dugard does not mention Arab terrorism, but says that Jewish settlers in the city "terrorize the few Palestinians that have not left the old city, and assault and traumatize children on the way to school."
Levanon said that Dugard's report "disregards the enormous efforts done by Israel to fight [Palestinian] terrorism while preserving humanitarian law and human rights... After the full military and civilian withdrawal of Israel from Gaza and the recent accession of the terrorist organization Hamas into power, the dissonance between [Dugard's] mandate and the present situation has never been clearer."
Jews and others murdered by Arab terrorists in the Hevron/Kiryat Arba area since the PA launched the Oslo War include:
Ten-month-old infant Shalhevet Pass; two international TIPH observers from Hevron; Rabbi Yossi and Chana Dickstein (parents of ten) and their ten-year-old son Shuvael; Soldier Matan Gadari of Moshav Moledet; Jerusalem resident and father of seven Shlomo Yitchak Shapira, 48, during Sukkot celebrations; 12 citizens and soldiers in an ambush attack in November 2002; three foot-patrol soldiers two months later; Gadi and Dina Levy; Rabbi Eli and Dina Horowitz in their home in Kiryat Arba; father of five Yossi Shok just three months ago; and many more.
Dugard's report states that last summer's Disengagement from Gaza by Israel was a "positive step," but that "Israel still effectively controls Gaza." Despite the destruction of all 21 Jewish communities there, the uprooting of 9,000 Jews from their homes, and the complete withdrawal of all Israeli military forces, Dugard says that Israel controls Gaza because it effects sonic booms and perpetrates occasional targeted killings from the air.
Yitzchak Levanon, Israel's U.N. ambassador in Geneva, responded that Dugard's allegations are "misinformed and inaccurate," and that his report is "guided by a clear political agenda, and bears little relation either to the facts or existing principles of international law." Levanon's response was e-mailed to The Associated Press.
In the Hevron section of the 22-page report to the UN, Dugard does not mention Arab terrorism, but says that Jewish settlers in the city "terrorize the few Palestinians that have not left the old city, and assault and traumatize children on the way to school."
Levanon said that Dugard's report "disregards the enormous efforts done by Israel to fight [Palestinian] terrorism while preserving humanitarian law and human rights... After the full military and civilian withdrawal of Israel from Gaza and the recent accession of the terrorist organization Hamas into power, the dissonance between [Dugard's] mandate and the present situation has never been clearer."
Jews and others murdered by Arab terrorists in the Hevron/Kiryat Arba area since the PA launched the Oslo War include:
Ten-month-old infant Shalhevet Pass; two international TIPH observers from Hevron; Rabbi Yossi and Chana Dickstein (parents of ten) and their ten-year-old son Shuvael; Soldier Matan Gadari of Moshav Moledet; Jerusalem resident and father of seven Shlomo Yitchak Shapira, 48, during Sukkot celebrations; 12 citizens and soldiers in an ambush attack in November 2002; three foot-patrol soldiers two months later; Gadi and Dina Levy; Rabbi Eli and Dina Horowitz in their home in Kiryat Arba; father of five Yossi Shok just three months ago; and many more.