United Nations – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Tuesday he was setting up an investigation into attacks on United Nations facilities during Israel’s recent war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and the use of U.N. sites to store weapons.
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The world body has said that tens of thousands of dwellings were damaged or destroyed in 50 days of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants, and 108,000 people are homeless in a long impoverished, isolated territory.
In one incident, more than a dozen people were killed at a U.N. school during an Israeli shelling. Israel has cited militants’ use of U.N. facilities to store rockets as a reason for targeting them.
Speaking at a monthly meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the Middle East, Ban told of his visit to a United Nations school in the Jabalia refugee camp, where civilians had sought protection during the war.
“I look forward to a thorough investigation by the Israeli Defence Forces of this and other incidents in which U.N. facilities sustained hits and many innocent people were killed,” he said.
“I am planning to move forward with an independent board of inquiry to look into the most serious of those cases, as well as instances in which weaponry was found on U.N. premises,” he added.
Ban’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric later described the inquiry as standard procedure whenever U.N. facilities are targeted.
The secretary-general did not offer any details about the board of inquiry. Dujarric said details would be included later in an official announcement of the inquiry.
Israel’s military last month opened five criminal investigations into its Gaza war operations, including attacks that killed four Palestinian children on a beach and 17 people at a U.N. school.
An estimated 20,000 homes were badly damaged or destroyed in the fighting and Gaza’s power station and other major infrastructure were hit. Rebuilding could take years.
More than 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, were killed during the Gaza war. Sixty-seven Israeli soldiers and six civilians in Israel were killed by rockets and attacks by the militants aligned with Hamas, the group that controls the Gaza Strip.
UN, take a hike and get a life !
and Ban-ki Mon_ki, get a real job !
As well as instances in which UN facilities were used to storage weapons. How nice Mr cookie. Don’t waste your time investigating. I will be your פותר חלום, it all comes because you put a blind eye on the palastinians. Whatever they’ll do is justified. Such one sided idiot’s. C’mon world when will you realise that this UN organisation are one big bunch of pen pushers and nothing else.
How about Setting Up Investigation Into Transferring rockets to the terrorist organization by UN Facility?
And start with Banki Moon himself!
This, from the head of the “organization” which returned to terrorist hamas the rockets they found in their own U.N. Schools and facilities…. Yeah this investigation will be real reliable….