United Nations – Israel fired on seven United Nations schools during the 2014 Gaza war, killing 44 Palestinians who had sought shelter at some sites, while Palestinian militants hid weapons and fired from several empty U.N. premises, a U.N. inquiry found.
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“I deplore the fact that at least 44 Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli actions and at least 227 injured at United Nations premises being used as emergency shelters,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote in a cover letter accompanying a summary of the inquiry’s findings released on Monday.
“I am dismayed that Palestinian militant groups would put United Nations schools at risk by using them to hide their arms. The three schools at which weaponry was found were empty at the time and were not being used as shelters,” Ban wrote.
More than 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, were killed during the Gaza conflict last July and August. Sixty-seven Israeli soldiers and six civilians in Israel were killed by rockets and attacks by Hamas and other militant groups.
Both Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that dominates Gaza, said they would cooperate fully with the inquiry, launched by Ban in October.
The inquiry was headed by Patrick Cammaert, a retired Dutch general and former force commander of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Israel’s military in September opened five criminal investigations into its Gaza war operations, including attacks on some of the U.N. schools and an incident that killed four Palestinian children on a beach.
“United Nations premises are inviolable and should be places of safety, particularly in a situation of armed conflict,” Ban wrote. “I will work with all concerned and spare no effort to ensure that such incidents will never be repeated.”
what’s with all the ROCKETS being fired on innocent women & children by HAMAS TERRORISTS – Mr. MOON !!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe you should live in Sderot for a month right next to the TUNNELS full of ammunition……..
Ban Ki-moon – what about the 2 innocent hostages that the CIA drone strike killed a couple of months ago? Any comments on that?
Will he also work with all concerned and spare no effort to find those who used the schools for hiding the bombs? That nasty little creature
Here he goes again. Only Israel is disparaged while the rest of the Middle East and elsewhere are violently killing each other off. Ho hum! Business as usual
Vos Iz Neias !!
How about some choice words for Iran, which refuses to allow meaningful inspections of its nuclear facilities and the fact that they have cheated before threatens world security.
when will the spineless BIBI bomb the place instead of send young yiddish kinda to death to make ban ki moon happy, BIBI you will burn for this.