Israel wants a U.N. report on hunger in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to be withdrawn. Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Yaakov Levy, says the report should be deemed “unfit for presentation” when the U.N. Human Rights Commission meets in the spring. Israeli officials say the report’s author, Jean Ziegler, is biased.
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