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Israel Weighs Measures Against Palestinians over UN Inquiry
(Bloomberg) Calev Ben-David - Israel is considering measures against the Palestinian Authority for promoting a UN human rights inquiry into West Bank Jewish settlements, an Israeli official said Sunday. The UN Human Rights Council agreed on March 22 to send a fact-finding mission to investigate how Israeli settlements in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem are affecting the rights of Palestinians. The U.S., which cast the sole vote against the resolution, said the council is biased against Israel. Israel said it won't cooperate with the mission. "Since the conclusions of the future fact-finding missions are already dictated in advance by the resolution on which it is established, there is no point in working together with this travesty of an investigation," Israeli Foreign Ministry Yigal Palmor said.