UN commissioned report: Israel occupation resembles apartheid

An independent report commissioned by the United Nations compares Israel's actions in the West Bank and Gaza to apartheid South Africa - charges that drew angry rebukes from Israel and were sure to revive charges that the UN Human Rights Council is biased against the Jewish state.

The report by John Dugard, a South African lawyer who campaigned against apartheid in the 1980s, says "Israel's laws and practices in the ( Palestinian territories) certainly resemble aspects of apartheid." (AP)