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Reuters: U.N. Rights Body Tells Israel To End Gaza Blockade

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Tags: Gaza Blockade, Human rights, Israel, United Nations

Israel must lift its military blockade of the Gaza Strip and invite an independent, fact-finding mission to investigate its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a United Nations rights body said on Friday.

The U.N. Human Rights Committee also told Israel to ensure that Palestinians in the occupied territories can enjoy the human rights that Israel had pledged to uphold in the main international human rights treaty.

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