by Shlomo Cesana
Israel has presented ample evidence proving terrorists used U.N. structures to hide weapons, fire rockets
The United Nations
Secretariat said Thursday that Israel was liable for the damage caused
to U.N. facilities in the Gaza Strip during the 2014 war with Hamas, and
demanded restitution.
No details were given as to the amount the U.N. was demanding as compensation.
The Secretariat maintains that schools run
by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees were damaged in Israeli strikes carried out during Operation
Protective Edge.
Israel has presented ample evidence that
U.N. and UNRWA facilities were used by Hamas to hide weapons and launch
rockets at Israel. The Secretariat, however, has made no attempt to
demand similar restitution from the terrorist group that controls Gaza.
"Israel will take any action necessary to
defend its citizens and foil any threat posed to their safety and
security," Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon said Thursday.
"Instead of making demands of Israel, the
U.N. should ask Hamas for compensation, for using its [U.N.] facilities
to harm civilians," Danon said.
"It [the U.N.] should also investigate how
time and again, a terrorist group, which uses Gazans as human shields,
exploits these facilities for its own use," he said.
Following the 2014 conflict, then-U.N.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon established a commission of inquiry to
investigate incidents where U.N. facilities in Gaza were used by
terrorists. The report attributed several attacks in which schools were
hit by artillery fire and airstrikes to Israeli military operations.
Shlomo Cesana
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/03/23/un-demands-israel-compensate-it-for-facilities-damaged-in-gaza-war/
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