THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL HAS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO SEND A FACT-FINDING M...

World | April 20, 2002, Saturday // 00:00

The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to send a fact-finding mission to look into Israeli military action at the Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank town of Jenin. But after heavy diplomatic pressure from the US and Israel, the resolution does not describe the mission as an investigation. Arab nations have been leading calls for an investigation into the operation that left buildings destroyed and an unknown number of people killed during the Israeli army incursion in Jenin. Continuing their partial withdrawal from the West Bank, Israeli forces pulled out of Jenin on Friday, but new fighting erupted in the Gaza Strip.

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