The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150703   Message #3646609
Posted By: beardedbruce
30-Jul-14 - 10:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
shhh. another Hamas war crime to ignore…


"Gaza: The United Nations agency that looks after Palestinian refugees said it had found a cache of rockets at one of its schools in the Gaza Strip and deplored those who had put them there.

United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) spokesman Chris Gunness condemned those responsible for placing civilians in harm's way by storing the rockets at the school but he did not specifically blame any party.

"We condemn the group or groups who endangered civilians by placing these munitions in our school. This is yet another flagrant violation of the neutrality of our premises. We call on all the warring parties to respect the inviolability of UN property," Mr Gunness said.

Israel has claimed throughout the three-week conflict that Hamas and other Islamic militant groups have used schools and other civilian sites to store weapons, making them legitimate targets.

Israel has targeted a handful of UN sites during three weeks of fighting in the campaign against Islamist militants in the Gaza Strip, and has in the past said the agency's property was used for hostile purposes.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week expressed alarm that rockets had been discovered at a vacant UNRWA school and at another school a week before."