Britain: government refuses to release information on Israeli killing of UN worker

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The Blair government has turned down a request from the British Broadcasting Corporation to release official information on the death of Iain Hook. A British United Nations worker, Hook was shot and killed by the Israeli military on November 22, 2002. No one has been held accountable for his murder, which was one of a series of attacks on aid workers, peace activists and journalists by the Israeli army at the time. The BBC reports that the government rejected its application for the classified material under the Freedom of Information Act on the grounds that “releasing information on the death could damage its relations with another state.”