Desmond Tutu says he is very distressed over lack of

Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu said Monday that the Israeli government's failure to permit a factfinding

mission to investigate Israeli-Palestinian violence was "Very distressing."

"We find the lack of cooperation by the Israeli government very distressing, as well as its failure to

allow the missing timely passage to Israel," Tutu told reporters after UN Officials said Israel had blocked his UN Fact finding mission to the Gaza Strip. (AP)