A/HRC/4/116 page 3 Summer Rains”, and other issues of concern to the Human Rights Council in its special session of 6 July. This report, based on secondary sources and on my visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (including Gaza) from 9 to 17 June 2006, was incorporated in my report (A/HRC/2/5), which was considered by the Human Rights Council on 26 September 2006. 10. I reported to the Human Rights Council on 29 Septemberthat I had been unable to carry out the requested fact-finding mission as a result of the failure of the Government of Israel to consent to the mission. 11. I visited the Occupied Palestinian Territory from 1 to 8 December 2006, in my capacity as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. I did not require the consent of the Government of Israel for this mission but I did as a matter of courtesy inform the Ambassador of Israel in Geneva of my visit. At the same time I assured him that I did not intend to visit the Occupied Palestinian Territory in pursuance of resolution S-1/1 but in my capacity as Special Rapporteur. The Government of Israel accordingly agreed to facilitate my visit, as it has done in the past, by providing me with a letter which explained the purpose of my visit and requested the relevant Israeli authorities to facilitate my movements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Although the Government of Israel refuses to accept my mandate, and consequently to have any contacts with me at governmental level during my visits, it has greatly facilitated my movements by issuing me with the letter described above. 12. On my visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territory from 1 to 8 December, I investigated the human rights situation in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. My report on this visit is contained in document (A/HRC/4/17). While I investigated the human rights situation, I did not undertake fact-finding for the following reasons. First, this was not the purpose of my visit. Second, I lacked the expertise on my own to carry out such a task. 13. In the result I have not been able to carry out the fact-finding mission requested by the Council in its resolution S-1/1 as a result of the failure of the Government of Israel to consent to such a mission. -----