(Xinhua-China) Thomas Whittle - The Palestinians will seek the unanimous endorsement of the UN Human Rights Council for a report of a fact-finding mission that condemns Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Ibrahim Khraishe, the Palestinian representative to the UN in Geneva, said Saturday. A Palestinian-Arab draft resolution is to be voted on at a council meeting on Monday, he said. The UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Palestinian Territory urged Israel to evacuate all the settlements that were built after Israel had occupied the West Bank in 1967. Israel has boycotted the UNHRC since its decision to form the fact-finding mission.
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