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Wed 01 Jan 2009UN body calls for special session on Gaza
The United Nations Human Rights Council said today it will hold a special session on Friday on the situation in the Gaza Strip at the request of Islamic and developing countries as well as Russia.
The formal request, from 29 members of the 47-nation body, says the session should discuss "the grave violations of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including the recent aggression in the Occupied Gaza Strip."
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