QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE OCCUPIED

ARAB TERRITORIES, INCLUDING PALESTINE

Note verbale dated 16 December 2002 from the Permanent Representative

of Israel to the Âé¶¹APP Office at Geneva addressed to the

secretariat of the Commission on Human Rights

The Permanent Mission of Israel to the Âé¶¹APP Office and other International Organizations in Geneva presents its compliments to the secretariat of the Commission on Human Rights and has the honour to enclose herewith Israel’s response* to the report and addendum of Mr. John Dugard, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights dealing with the West Bank and Gaza, to the Âé¶¹APP General Assembly, contained in documents  and .

The Permanent Mission of Israel requests that this document be circulated as an official document under agenda item 8 of the agenda of the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on Human Rights.

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*Reproduced in the annex as received, in the language of submission only.