The United Nations has started to prepare the report on the events that took place last month in the Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank town of Jenin. It is expected to be complete in six weeks, a UN spokesman said.
Fred Eckhard, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, told reporters that letters requesting information from the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority about the incidents were being drawn up and would be sent out "in the next day or so."
"The United Nations," added Eckhard, "expects the preparation of the report to take six weeks or so." The spokesman noted that "there will be no progress reports" before the final report is introduced to Annan.
Meanwhile, Israel has come under attack from the human rights organization Amnesty International, which accuses it of torture and inhuman treatment of Palestinians during the recent Israeli operation in the West Bank.
"During the latest Israeli incursions into Palestinian refugee camps and other residential areas, thousands of Palestinians have been arrested, held in prolonged incommunicado detention and subjected to cruel and degrading treatment," Amnesty said in a briefing submitted Tuesday to the UN Committee against Torture (CAT).
The CAT will on Wednesday discuss the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories for the second time in six months, AFP reported. (Albawaba.com)
