The US’ Ambassador to the United Nations is expressing frustration with the Israeli army following strikes that killed a number of UN-aligned personnel within the area.
Amb. Linda Thomas-Greenfield spoke out on the U.N. Safety Council assembly on Monday, the place she lamented the “preventable” lack of life attributable to the battle.
“We will continue to raise the need for Israel to facilitate humanitarian operations, and protect humanitarian workers and facilities, such as the UNRWA school targeted by the IDF last week in Nusseirat,” Thomas-Greenfield stated.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, speaks after a gathering of the United Nations Safety Council at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photograph/John Minchillo)
UNRWA refers to the United Nations Aid and Works Company for Palestine Refugees within the Close to East.
She continued, “We have also been unequivocal in communicating to Israel that there is no basis – absolutely none – for its forces to be opening fire on clearly marked UN vehicles, as recently occurred on numerous occasions.”
A former faculty transformed right into a UNRWA civilian shelter was struck final week by the Israeli Protection Forces, killing 18 folks. Six of these killed had been UNRWA personnel.
The Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, beforehand rebuked criticism of the strike on the UNRWA shelter, asserting that the complete company has turn into overrun with terrorists and terrorist sympathizers — together with personnel on the destroyed shelter.
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Israeli troopers take up place subsequent to buildings destroyed by the Israeli army within the Gaza Strip. (AP Photograph/Leo Correa)
“How long will the U.N. continue to bury its head in the sand and ignore the fact that Hamas terrorists have taken over UNRWA?” Danon requested this week. “Those who were killed yesterday (Wednesday) in the IDF strike were nine terrorists with blood on their hands, and some of them participated in the barbaric massacre on October 7.”
Danon supplied an inventory of names ostensibly connecting identified Hamas terrorists to the civilian shelter.
When approached by Fox Information Digital, Juliette Touma, a UNRWA spokesperson, claimed that “Israeli authorities have not requested UNRWA officially to provide them with the list of staff killed in yesterday’s attack on the UNRWA school.” She added, “The names that appear on today’s statement from the Israeli Army have not been flagged to us before by the Israeli authorities in previous occasions prior to today.”
The U.S. ambassador did word on Monday the continuing risk of Hamas embedding its members inside civilian businesses.
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Palestinians protest outdoors the United Nations Aid and Works Company (UNRWA) in Gaza Metropolis towards the discount of meals support supplied for the refugees. (Majdi Fathi/TPS)
“At the same time, we continue to see Hamas hiding in, and taking over, and otherwise using civilian sites to conduct operations and pose an ongoing threat,” stated Thomas-Greenfield. “There’s no clearer evidence of Hamas’ total indifference to Palestinian civilians in Gaza. For their sake, and the sake of innocent people on all sides of this conflict – this must stop.”
9 people had been fired by UNRWA final month after it was discovered they doubtless participated within the Hamas slaughter of 1,200 folks, together with greater than 30 Individuals, on Oct. 7 in southern Israel.
“For nine people, the evidence was sufficient to conclude that they may have been involved in the 7th of October attacks,” Farhan Haq, spokesperson for the U.N. secretary common stated throughout a press briefing.
Fox Information Digital’s Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report.
