ISRAEL

Independent: UN demands end to Israeli 'killing and beating' of staff

"United Nations workers issued a petition yesterday demanding the Israeli army stop the "harassment, beating and killing" of UN staff.

The petition comes less than two weeks after Iain Hook, a British UN worker, was shot dead by an Israeli soldier inside a UN compound as he tried to evacuate his staff.

"For two years, United Nations staff have been subject to escalating harassment and violence by Israel's military, so that the protection supposed to be afforded by the blue letters of the UN is being steadily eroded," said the petition, which was signed by 64 UN staff working in Israel and the occupied territories."