The Israeli government has expelled a UN human rights envoy after detaining him at the Tel Aviv airport for more than twenty hours. The envoy, Richard Falk, serves as the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories. Falk has been a vocal critic of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Meanwhile, UN General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann has revealed he has recently received death threats. Last month, he compared Israel to apartheid South Africa. In other news from the region, Israel released over 220 Palestinian prisoners on Monday. Most of the prisoners are members of Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction. Israel still holds about 11,000 Palestinian prisoners.