The following is a statement given to YWN by the U.N.:
The Secretary-General strongly condemns the killing today of at least 10 Palestinian civilians in shelling outside of an UNRWA school in Rafah providing shelter to thousands of civilians. The attack is yet another gross violation of international humanitarian law, which clearly requires protection by both parties of Palestinian civilians, UN staff and UN premises, among other civilian facilities.
United Nations shelters must be safe zones not combat zones. The Israel Defence Forces have been repeatedly informed of the location of these sites. This attack, along with other breaches of international law, must be swiftly investigated and those responsible held accountable. It is a moral outrage and a criminal act.
The Secretary-General is profoundly dismayed over the appalling escalation of violence and loss of hundreds of Palestinian civilian lives since the breach of the humanitarian ceasefire on 1 August. The resurgence in fighting has only exacerbated the man-made humanitarian and health crisis wreaking havoc in Gaza. Restoring calm can be achieved through resumption of the ceasefire and negotiations by the parties in Cairo to address the underlying issues.
The Secretary-General repeats his demand to the parties to immediately end the fighting and return to the path of peace. This madness must stop.
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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19 Responses
There are no ruled when on side goes against humanity! It’s a criminal act what hamas is doing SO TALK TO THEM!!
Fyi mr monkey did u hear that hamas executed some protesters? I guess u r not that concerned with “innocent pals”only the ones that get killed by israel. Y dont u go do some inventory on how much weaponry is being hostef by your schools and clinics or perhaps u can help hamas prepare the next video showing jews drinking arab blood
MR. MOON – YOU ARE THE CRIMINAL TO BLAME THE ISRAELIS IF GRETTING SHOT AT FROM THESE SCHOOLS!!!! IS THAT SUFFICIENT REASON NOT TO RESPOND TO HAMAS FIRE? WHY DON’T YOU PUT THE BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS – WITH HAMAS FOR USING HUMAN SHIELDS AND ATTACKING FROM THESE AREAS!!! ITS ABOUT TIME THAT YOU CORRECT YOUR CROOKED WARPED WAY OF ANALYZING EVENTS?? IS IT ANY WONDER THAT THE UN TODAY IS NO HONEST BROKER FOR PEACE…ITS JUST THE MOUTHPEACE OF ISLAM AND TERRORISTS!!!!!!
ENOUGH!!! YOU SHOULD BE COMPLIMENTING ISRAEL FOR THEIR ABNORMAL CAREFULNESS IN A IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION!!
Baboon
this guy probably lost his lifes savings in the madoff scandal,wheres his anti semitism come from???
Mr Ban you got it right for once. This was a criminal act. The bit you got wrong was who is doing the crime. It is an accepted war crime to use a civilian area as a military base in order to try and prevent the military attacker from attacking a legitimate military target. The fallout from the attack is then justifiable in law (however tragic). We hope that the UN will in fact condemn Hamas et al for this and all the other war crimes which have been committed.
CORRECTION:
M. Moon is strongly condemning Israel for blowing up the weapons cashe’ and the UNs shelling center. He was reading someone else’s teleprompter so he got the lines mixed up!
Please stop quoting & giving more coverage to Mr. Bunkhead.
Why should any body listen to this misinformed chink I don’t remember him getting too excited when Bashar Assad butchered 100,000 innocent civilians. So it’s not the killing of innocents that bothers him rather it’s the fact that the Israelis are doing the killing and not just the dieing as punishment I think he should be confined to Sderot for the next few years from where he can better think over the situation in a more informed way.
Mr. Moon:- I would be more than happy to offer my unused mileage to you, so that you can take an extended trip to Syria, and have a much better understanding of what “true pillage” really is. If this isn’t enough, then go to your namesake, and watch all the true trouble spots on planet earth from the comfort of the moon.
“Criminal Act?”
Dumb Gum Chump should go visit the UN schools and count the amount of rockets hidden in each one of them. When he finds them he can all sit on one each and watch the show from there.
Your school are perfect targets for Hamas political gain.
Hey Chump idiot, did you ever think that Hamas forced these the civilians into the school knowing that they were going to shoot some rockets off from the to draw attention to the school? Besides that how can anyone trust Hamas to give a correct body count?
Remember you dummy, we didn’t start this, but we sure as heck are going to finish it.
I guess you r all mixed up , your name is not Ban Ki Moon it is Monkey Boon
UNRWA is a criminal act, run by a bunch of criminals.
Is anyone keeping track of who gets condemned ? Notice that not one UN employee has been killed, how is that if the UN is effectively running these “schools”?
Dear Mr.Moon,as long as your employes are hiding Hamas”s
rockets in YOUR schools,then YOUR schools are war zone.
The Secretary-General is correct. UN buildings SHOULD be safe havens for citizens. UN buildings SHOULD be considered as neutral areas. However, once you find caches of missiles and launchers in UN buildings, they lose their neutrality. Once they are found to be booby-trapped (obviously to kill Israelis – not innocent citizens) they lose their neutrality. Allowing the launching of missiles from the yards of these buildings causes you to lose your neutrality. Merely condemning these breaches without doing something about it is not sufficient. Because then you are giving safe haven to the armed militants. You can give the exact locations of safe havens to the Israelis, but if missiles emanate from these areas, they are no longer neutral areas and are subject to be taken out! By the way, did anyone bother checking how many innocent civilians were killed during the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq? Then they were not called innocent casualties. They were called “collateral damage”! Sorry – you were in the way!
Mr ban Ban going to moon you are housing the Hamas rockets so you are the criminal not us Jews
To #17 –
גוט גאזוגט ! You comment was the clearest.