The European Parliament is due to host a controversial UN panel on the Palestinians' right to self-determination without external interference, despite criticism by Israel and some MEPs.
A gathering of the UN's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People - founded in 1975 - will take place in Brussels' seat of the EU assembly on 30-31 August.
The panel consists of 22 member nations and 26 observers. Of them, only Malta and Cyprus are EU countries....
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