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| UN retracts claim Israeli strike hit school |
| 2009-02-04 |
| THE United Nations has retracted a claim that an Israeli strike which killed more than 40 people in northern Gaza city of Jabaliya last month hit a school run by a UN agency. "The humanitarian coordinator would like to clarify that the shelling, and all of the fatalities, took place outside rather than inside the school," the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in its latest weekly update on the situation in Gaza. It stressed that its initial report of the January 6 incident correctly stated that Israeli shells hit outside the school run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, but that it later referred to "the shelling of the UNRWA school in Jabaliya". The Israeli military initially said its forces had responded to hostile fire from within the UN school but later reportedly retracted that statement. The attack sparked widespread outrage in the midst of Israel's deadly offensive in Gaza. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 But how will the International Criminal Court in The Hague be able to continue their arraignment of the nation of Israel when the primary accusation has been withdrawn so perfunctorily? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-02-04 16:33 |
| #2 Only a week after photos and eyewitness accounts became public. That's progress for the UN. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-02-04 13:01 |
| #1 It will be interesting to see how long we have to wait until we find out how many of those 1500 dead Palis were actually "civilians". |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-04 12:47 |