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Mon 08 Aug 2001Palestinians rebuke US for blocking UN actionPalestinians rebuked the UN Security Council and the United States today for not taking action to place monitors in the West Bank and Gaza, saying this contributed to the past 11 months of violence.Because of the US objections, many non-Islamic countries were not anxious to push any resolution to a vote and some, like Russia, were silent on monitors or observers.