GENEVA, March 24, 2014 -- The Palestinian delegation to the UN Human Rights Council three times interrupted the plenary testimony of a human rights activist today in a failed bid to block revelations that it had tried to fire the 47-nation body's controversial official Richard Falk, who delivered his final report today after serving the maximum term of six years as investigator into "Israel's violations of the bases and principles of international law." (Click for video; see Chapter 36 on right column.)
