Israel blocks Tutu

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GENEVA - South African Nobel prize winner Desmond Tutu said on Monday he was distressed that Israel had blocked his planned mission to Gaza to investigate last month's killing of 19 Palestinian civilians by Israeli shells.

The former archbishop of Cape Town and peace laureate was due to lead a team asked by the United Nations' Human Rights Council to investigate the incident at
Beit Hanoun in Gaza on November 8.

But after waiting in Geneva for the green light from Israel, Tutu and his fellow team member British law professor Christine Chinkin said they no longer had time to complete the visit by the end of the week as planned.

"We find the lack of cooperation by the Israeli government very distressing," they said in a joint statement.

In the meantime, Jimmy Carter is being villified for his new book that calls the situation between Israel and the Palestinians an "apartheid".