text: adequate assistance to women within the context of existing United Nations programmes of assistance to the Palestinian people. Another representative stated that the report presented a one-sided view and was therefore incorrect. Several representatives stressed the importance of paragraph 260 of the Nairobi Forward-look~ug Strategies and its future implementation. Some representatives stated that the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War was applicable to the Palestinian territories that have been occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem~ 104. Some representatives referred to recent developments in the occupied Arab territories that had been reported world wide by the mass media and were characterized by acts of terror and oppression against the Palestinian people, including women and children. Several representatives suggested that the -71-Commission organize a fact-finding mission to study alleged cases of the violation of human rights and crimes committed against Palestinian women and children. It was also suggested that Israeli practices in the occupied Arab territories should be strongly condemned. The observer for the Palestine Liberation Organization described what were termed atrocities involving instances of indiscriminate use of tear gas, dum-dum bullets, mass arrests, detentions and deportations, attacks against schools, hospitals, mother-and-child-care centres and refugee camps, incidents of breaking bones and inflicting other injuries, and burning and burying people alive. Those practices had caused an increase in the number of deaths, major injuries and miscarriages. One representative rejected those statements as factually incorrect and presented a different view of recent events in the area. She stated that the level. of illiteracy among Palestinian women was lower than in any Arab State. She also pointed out that for the last 24 years, Israeli women and children had been the main targets of Palestine Liberation Organization terror attacks. New developm~nts concerning the situation of women under apartheid in South Africa 
analysis: The text appears to focus on the human rights and humanitarian situation of Palestinian women and children, with references to violations of human rights, occupation, and atrocities committed against them. It also touches on the situation of women under apartheid in South Africa. This suggests that the text is more concerned with humanitarian and human rights issues rather than economic or environmental development.