GENEVA, December 15, 2008 (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Authorities deported, Monday, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967 Professor Richard Falk, after holding him in Ben Gurion Airport.

Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations in Geneva said in a press release issued, Sunday, that the Israeli Occupation Authorities denied the UN Special Rapporteurfs access into the Palestinian Territory and Israel.

The press release explained that Falk was coming to detect Israel's violations of the International and the International Humanitarian Laws in the OPT. At his arrival, Israeli Authorities banned him from entering and held him in the immigration section in Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. Israeli Occupation Authorities deported him to Geneva Monday morning.

This is Falk's first official visit to the OPT and Israel, after he was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). He is currently working on a report about the human rights conditions in the OPT to raise it to the UNHRC tenth session in March 2009.