The Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Commission plans to send a three-member commission to investigate alleged abuses in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel has said it will not cooperate with the panel, created in October, when the commission passed a resolution accusing Israel of “war crimes” and “widespread, systematic and gross violations of human rights.”
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.