THE UN Security Council has adopted a resolution to send a fact-finding mission to Jenin to discover what happened during the Israeli army's attack on the West Bank town.
The decision to send the mission was passed unaminously last night in New York.
The Israelis announced this afternoon that it will co-operate fully with the mission. Gideon Meir, a spokesman for the foreign minister, said the army could provide evidence that would refute Palestinian claims that a "massacre" took place in in Jenin when the town was invaded on April 3.
The resolution came after Shimon Peres, the Israeli foreign minister, told the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that Israel would welcome a UN official "to clarify the facts".
He said: "Israel has nothing to hide regarding the operation in Jenin. Our hands are clean."
Earlier this week, the UN envoy to the region described the devastation in Jenin as "horrific beyond belief" and attacked Israel for preventing aid agencies entering the town.
Saturday, April 20, 2002
UN to send mission to Jenin
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