The United Nations has officially condemned Israel for shelling its
emergency shelters in Gaza during the summer of 2014. The attacks left
hundreds injured and at least 44 dead.
Al-Jazeera reports:
A UN inquiry has blamed Israeli security forces for seven deadly
attacks on UN schools in Gaza that were used as shelters for safety
during last year’s offensive.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement on Monday that
he deplored the attacks that killed at least 44 Palestinians and injured
at least 227 others at the UN sites.
“It is a matter of the utmost gravity that those who looked to them
for protection and who sought and were granted shelter there had their
hopes and trust denied,” Ban added.
The independent board of inquiry also found that weaponry was found
at three empty UN schools in Gaza and that in two cases Palestinian
fighters “probably” fired at Israeli forces from schools. Ban also
called that “unacceptable”.
Children injured during a strike on a compound housing the U.N. Beit Hanoun school in Gaza. (AP / Lefteris Pitarakis)
