Israel responsible for Gaza strikes on UN schools and shelters, inquiry finds

[fanger]

Israel
was responsible for striking seven United Nations sites used as civilian shelters during the 2014 Gaza war in which 44 Palestinians died and 227 others were injured, an inquiry ordered by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has concluded.

Releasing the report on Monday, Ban condemned the attacks “as a matter of the utmost gravity” and said “those who looked to them for protection and who sought and were granted shelter there had their hopes and trust denied”.

Ban insisted that UN locations were “inviolable”.

The issue is particularly sensitive as the locations of all UN buildings – including schools used as shelters – are routinely provided to the Israeli military and updated in times of conflict.

Ban’s criticism was contained in the published summary letter of a confidential internal report, commissioned by the secretary general in November, running to 207 pages.

Israel responsible for Gaza strikes on UN schools and shelters inquiry finds World news The Guardian

Iaraeli diplomats had exerted pressure on the UN to delay publication of the report until the completion of Israel’s own investigations into the attacks – conducted by the Israeli military advocate general Danny Efroni. Israel’s military in September opened five criminal investigations into its Gaza war operations, including attacks on some of the UN schools and an incident that killed four Palestinian children on a beach

 

[montelatici]

Isn't this what Phoney has been denying for the past 9 months. Now he will accuse Ban Ki-Moon of being an Islamonazi. I essentially have been telling Phoney exactly what the UN has now confirmed and he consistently accused me of being an Islamonazi racist for just stating this fact. And Phoney was not the only Ziomaniac to deny fact on this matter.

 

[fanger]

Incidents into Which, Following an Assessment by the FFAM, the MAG has Ordered Criminal Investigations

1.Allegation Concerning the Death of Four Children on the Gaza Strip Coast (16 July 2014) [published in a press release dated September 10th, 2014] –


The MAG Corps received reports, as well as complaints from human rights organizations, regarding allegations that an IDF strike on July 16, 2014, resulted in the death of four children on the coastal strip next to Gaza City. Subsequently, and in accordance with the MAG's investigation policy, the incident was referred to the FFAM.


The factual findings and materials collated by the FFAM and presented to the MAG, indicated the existence of grounds for a reasonable suspicion that the strike was not carried out in accordance with the rules and procedures applicable to IDF forces. As a result, the MAG has ordered a criminal investigation into the incident.


2.Allegation Concerning Civilian Casualties Resulting From a Strike in the Vicinity of an UNRWA School in Beit Hanoun (24 July 2014)[published in a press release dated September 10th, 2014] –


The MAG Corps received reports, as well as complaints from UNRWA and from human rights organizations, regarding allegations that an IDF strike in the vicinity of an UNRWA school in Beit Hanoun on July 24, 2014, resulted in the death of 15 civilians. Subsequently, and in accordance with the MAG's investigation policy, the incident was referred to the FFAM.


The factual findings and materials collated by the FFAM and presented to the MAG, indicated the existence of grounds for a reasonable suspicion that the incident involved a deviation from the rules and procedures applicable to IDF forces. As a result, and despite the fact that the actual number of civilian casualties is as yet unknown, the MAG has ordered a criminal investigation into the incident.
Home Page - IDF Military Advocate General

 

[Phoenall]

Isn't this what Phoney has been denying for the past 9 months. Now he will accuse Ban Ki-Moon of being an Islamonazi. I essentially have been telling Phoney exactly what the UN has now confirmed and he consistently accused me of being an Islamonazi racist for just stating this fact. And Phoney was not the only Ziomaniac to deny fact on this matter.

No I will join with UN Watch and call him a JEW HATING NAZI ANTI SEMITIC POS, because that is what he and the UN are. Time for Israel, the US and Europe to pull out of the UN and tell the other nations to find new headquarters with immediate effect

 

[Phoenall]

Incidents into Which, Following an Assessment by the FFAM, the MAG has Ordered Criminal Investigations

1.Allegation Concerning the Death of Four Children on the Gaza Strip Coast (16 July 2014) [published in a press release dated September 10th, 2014] –


The MAG Corps received reports, as well as complaints from human rights organizations, regarding allegations that an IDF strike on July 16, 2014, resulted in the death of four children on the coastal strip next to Gaza City. Subsequently, and in accordance with the MAG's investigation policy, the incident was referred to the FFAM.


The factual findings and materials collated by the FFAM and presented to the MAG, indicated the existence of grounds for a reasonable suspicion that the strike was not carried out in accordance with the rules and procedures applicable to IDF forces. As a result, the MAG has ordered a criminal investigation into the incident.


2.Allegation Concerning Civilian Casualties Resulting From a Strike in the Vicinity of an UNRWA School in Beit Hanoun (24 July 2014)[published in a press release dated September 10th, 2014] –


The MAG Corps received reports, as well as complaints from UNRWA and from human rights organizations, regarding allegations that an IDF strike in the vicinity of an UNRWA school in Beit Hanoun on July 24, 2014, resulted in the death of 15 civilians. Subsequently, and in accordance with the MAG's investigation policy, the incident was referred to the FFAM.


The factual findings and materials collated by the FFAM and presented to the MAG, indicated the existence of grounds for a reasonable suspicion that the incident involved a deviation from the rules and procedures applicable to IDF forces. As a result, and despite the fact that the actual number of civilian casualties is as yet unknown, the MAG has ordered a criminal investigation into the incident.
Home Page - IDF Military Advocate General

And both were investigated and found to be unfounded. The beach incident had too many discrepancies in the evidence submitted by hamas, and pointed to an earlier incident that was a hamas/fatah killing. The school was not targeted but two terrorists were and the munitions used killed the two terrorists but did not harm any one else. The bodies were shipped in or were posed by actors in the usual hamas propaganda fashion.

 

[Phoenall]

Isn't this what Phoney has been denying for the past 9 months. Now he will accuse Ban Ki-Moon of being an Islamonazi. I essentially have been telling Phoney exactly what the UN has now confirmed and he consistently accused me of being an Islamonazi racist for just stating this fact. And Phoney was not the only Ziomaniac to deny fact on this matter.

The evidence is slim at the very least and so should have been ignored after the finding of hamas qassam rockets in UNWRA schools. The video and satellite imagery should have been taken into account of just where rockets and mortars were fired from and those areas designated by the UN as valid military targets

 

[montelatici]

Isn't this what Phoney has been denying for the past 9 months. Now he will accuse Ban Ki-Moon of being an Islamonazi. I essentially have been telling Phoney exactly what the UN has now confirmed and he consistently accused me of being an Islamonazi racist for just stating this fact. And Phoney was not the only Ziomaniac to deny fact on this matter.

No I will join with UN Watch and call him a JEW HATING NAZI ANTI SEMITIC POS, because that is what he and the UN are. Time for Israel, the US and Europe to pull out of the UN and tell the other nations to find new headquarters with immediate effect

LOL. You can't make this stuff up. Go,go Phoney.

 

[Phoenall]

Isn't this what Phoney has been denying for the past 9 months. Now he will accuse Ban Ki-Moon of being an Islamonazi. I essentially have been telling Phoney exactly what the UN has now confirmed and he consistently accused me of being an Islamonazi racist for just stating this fact. And Phoney was not the only Ziomaniac to deny fact on this matter.

No I will join with UN Watch and call him a JEW HATING NAZI ANTI SEMITIC POS, because that is what he and the UN are. Time for Israel, the US and Europe to pull out of the UN and tell the other nations to find new headquarters with immediate effect

LOL. You can't make this stuff up. Go,go Phoney.

Do you want the pictures again of rocket launchers in school grounds, Hospital. grounds and mosques.

As for the UN if the decent humanitarian nations pulled out it would be the United islamonazi Nations with its headquarters in Iran

 

[montelatici]

The UN issued its report and it stated exactly what I have been telling you for months. All your BS means nothing.

 

[Phoenall]

The UN issued its report and it stated exactly what I have been telling you for months. All your BS means nothing.

So why cherry pick the parts that demonise Israel. You do realise that this is posting RACIST LIES

 

[fanger]

Israel responsible for Gaza strikes on UN schools and shelters, inquiry finds


Ban Ki-moon condemns attacks, including strike on UN school that killed 20 people and wounded dozens, ‘as a matter of the utmost gravity’

Israel was responsible for striking seven United Nations sites used as civilian shelters during the 2014 Gaza war in which 44 Palestinians died and 227 others were injured, an inquiry ordered by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has concluded.

Releasing the report on Monday, Ban condemned the attacks “as a matter of the utmost gravity” and said “those who looked to them for protection and who sought and were granted shelter there had their hopes and trust denied”.

Ban insisted that UN locations were “inviolable”.

The issue is particularly sensitive as the locations of all UN buildings – including schools used as shelters – are routinely provided to the Israeli military and updated in times of conflict.

Ban’s criticism was contained in the published summary letter of a confidential internal report, commissioned by the secretary general in November, running to 207 pages.






“I am dismayed that Palestinian militant groups would put United Nations schools at risk by using them to hide their arms.”

He added, however, that: “The three schools at which weaponry was found were empty at the time and were not being used as shelters.”

Israeli diplomats had exerted pressure on the UN to delay publication of the report until the completion of Israel’s own investigations into the attacks – conducted by the Israeli military advocate general Danny Efroni. Israel’s military in September opened five criminal investigations into its Gaza war operations, including attacks on some of the UN schools and an incident that killed four Palestinian children on a beach.

The UN inquiry, which examined both forensic evidence and testimonies of UN staff in Gaza during the 50-day war last summer, concluded seven incidents were attributable to the Israel Defence Forces.

Ban added: “I will work with all concerned and spare no effort to ensure that such incidents will never be repeated.”

Although the report has no legal status, the disclosure of the inquiry’s findings comes at a difficult time for Israel on the international stage, facing increasing international isolation over its policies and following the acceptance of the Palestinian Authority as a signatory to the International Criminal Court earlier this month.

The attacks on UN schools being used as shelters were among some of the mostcontroversial incidents of the war. International humanitarian law – while complex – requires attacking forces in areas where there are non-combatants to protect civilians and adhere to the principle of proportionality, safeguards even more stringent when civilians are under UN protection.

In one of the most serious incidents, the UNRWA school in Jabaliya was struck by Israeli fire, killing 20 people and wounding dozens.

In the aftermath of the attack Israel claimed – including in a report into the incident – that soldiers near the school were had come under fire.

In another incident that saw Israeli munitions strike a UN school in Beit Hanoun 15 Palestinians were killed in the playground as they awaited evacuation while dozens more injured.

Israeli sources had originally tried to suggest that the attack had been due to a Hamas weapon falling short.
Israel responsible for Gaza strikes on UN schools and shelters inquiry finds World news The Guardian

 

[M14 Shooter]

Israel
was responsible for striking seven United Nations sites used as civilian shelters during the 2014 Gaza war in which 44 Palestinians died and 227 others were injured, an inquiry ordered by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has concluded.
Ban insisted that UN locations were “inviolable”.

Why did Israel attack those sites?

 

[aris2chat]

Israel responsible for Gaza strikes on UN schools and shelters, inquiry finds


Ban Ki-moon condemns attacks, including strike on UN school that killed 20 people and wounded dozens, ‘as a matter of the utmost gravity’

Israel was responsible for striking seven United Nations sites used as civilian shelters during the 2014 Gaza war in which 44 Palestinians died and 227 others were injured, an inquiry ordered by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has concluded.

Releasing the report on Monday, Ban condemned the attacks “as a matter of the utmost gravity” and said “those who looked to them for protection and who sought and were granted shelter there had their hopes and trust denied”.

Ban insisted that UN locations were “inviolable”.

The issue is particularly sensitive as the locations of all UN buildings – including schools used as shelters – are routinely provided to the Israeli military and updated in times of conflict.

Ban’s criticism was contained in the published summary letter of a confidential internal report, commissioned by the secretary general in November, running to 207 pages.






“I am dismayed that Palestinian militant groups would put United Nations schools at risk by using them to hide their arms.”

He added, however, that: “The three schools at which weaponry was found were empty at the time and were not being used as shelters.”

Israeli diplomats had exerted pressure on the UN to delay publication of the report until the completion of Israel’s own investigations into the attacks – conducted by the Israeli military advocate general Danny Efroni. Israel’s military in September opened five criminal investigations into its Gaza war operations, including attacks on some of the UN schools and an incident that killed four Palestinian children on a beach.

The UN inquiry, which examined both forensic evidence and testimonies of UN staff in Gaza during the 50-day war last summer, concluded seven incidents were attributable to the Israel Defence Forces.

Ban added: “I will work with all concerned and spare no effort to ensure that such incidents will never be repeated.”

Although the report has no legal status, the disclosure of the inquiry’s findings comes at a difficult time for Israel on the international stage, facing increasing international isolation over its policies and following the acceptance of the Palestinian Authority as a signatory to the International Criminal Court earlier this month.

The attacks on UN schools being used as shelters were among some of the mostcontroversial incidents of the war. International humanitarian law – while complex – requires attacking forces in areas where there are non-combatants to protect civilians and adhere to the principle of proportionality, safeguards even more stringent when civilians are under UN protection.

In one of the most serious incidents, the UNRWA school in Jabaliya was struck by Israeli fire, killing 20 people and wounding dozens.

In the aftermath of the attack Israel claimed – including in a report into the incident – that soldiers near the school were had come under fire.

In another incident that saw Israeli munitions strike a UN school in Beit Hanoun 15 Palestinians were killed in the playground as they awaited evacuation while dozens more injured.

Israeli sources had originally tried to suggest that the attack had been due to a Hamas weapon falling short.
Israel responsible for Gaza strikes on UN schools and shelters inquiry finds World news The Guardian

I believe it is around page 20 of the document that discusses the illegal use by hamas and the UN responsibility of removing and relocating those taking shelter with the UN away from those buildings.
Weapon storage or firing from or near UN buildings make them legitimate targets. Civilians were not intentionally being targeted.

 

[fanger]

So, post a link to where you read "page 20"

 

[Phoenall]

Israel responsible for Gaza strikes on UN schools and shelters, inquiry finds


Ban Ki-moon condemns attacks, including strike on UN school that killed 20 people and wounded dozens, ‘as a matter of the utmost gravity’

Israel was responsible for striking seven United Nations sites used as civilian shelters during the 2014 Gaza war in which 44 Palestinians died and 227 others were injured, an inquiry ordered by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has concluded.

Releasing the report on Monday, Ban condemned the attacks “as a matter of the utmost gravity” and said “those who looked to them for protection and who sought and were granted shelter there had their hopes and trust denied”.

Ban insisted that UN locations were “inviolable”.

The issue is particularly sensitive as the locations of all UN buildings – including schools used as shelters – are routinely provided to the Israeli military and updated in times of conflict.

Ban’s criticism was contained in the published summary letter of a confidential internal report, commissioned by the secretary general in November, running to 207 pages.






“I am dismayed that Palestinian militant groups would put United Nations schools at risk by using them to hide their arms.”

He added, however, that: “The three schools at which weaponry was found were empty at the time and were not being used as shelters.”

Israeli diplomats had exerted pressure on the UN to delay publication of the report until the completion of Israel’s own investigations into the attacks – conducted by the Israeli military advocate general Danny Efroni. Israel’s military in September opened five criminal investigations into its Gaza war operations, including attacks on some of the UN schools and an incident that killed four Palestinian children on a beach.

The UN inquiry, which examined both forensic evidence and testimonies of UN staff in Gaza during the 50-day war last summer, concluded seven incidents were attributable to the Israel Defence Forces.

Ban added: “I will work with all concerned and spare no effort to ensure that such incidents will never be repeated.”

Although the report has no legal status, the disclosure of the inquiry’s findings comes at a difficult time for Israel on the international stage, facing increasing international isolation over its policies and following the acceptance of the Palestinian Authority as a signatory to the International Criminal Court earlier this month.

The attacks on UN schools being used as shelters were among some of the mostcontroversial incidents of the war. International humanitarian law – while complex – requires attacking forces in areas where there are non-combatants to protect civilians and adhere to the principle of proportionality, safeguards even more stringent when civilians are under UN protection.

In one of the most serious incidents, the UNRWA school in Jabaliya was struck by Israeli fire, killing 20 people and wounding dozens.

In the aftermath of the attack Israel claimed – including in a report into the incident – that soldiers near the school were had come under fire.

In another incident that saw Israeli munitions strike a UN school in Beit Hanoun 15 Palestinians were killed in the playground as they awaited evacuation while dozens more injured.

Israeli sources had originally tried to suggest that the attack had been due to a Hamas weapon falling short.
Israel responsible for Gaza strikes on UN schools and shelters inquiry finds World news The Guardian

Then hamas needs to stop using them for munitions dumps or illegal rocket battery's

 

[M14 Shooter]

Why did Israel attack those sites?

 

[montelatici]

Why did Israel attack those sites?

Good question.

He (the UN Secretary General, ed.) added, however, that: “The three schools at which weaponry was found were empty at the time and were not being used as shelters.”

and

"Chris Gunness, spokesman for UNRWA, which runs Gaza’s UN schools said: “The inquiry found that despite numerous notifications to the Israeli army of the precise GPS coordinates of the schools and numerous notifications about the presence of displaced people, in all seven cases investigated by the Board of Inquiry when our schools were hit directly or in the immediate vicinity, the hit was attributable to the IDF.

“The board confirms the use by the IDF of weaponry such as 120 mm high explosive anti-tank projectiles and 155 MM high explosive projectiles on or in the surrounding area of UNRWA schools where civilians had taken refuge. In the incidents investigated at least 44 people were killed and 227 injured including women and children. In none of the schools which were hit directly or in the immediate vicinity, were weapons discovered or fired from. If it were confirmed that militants did fire rockets from our schools we would condemn it, just as we robustly we condemned other violations of our neutrality.”

Israel responsible for Gaza strikes on UN schools and shelters inquiry finds World news The Guardian

 

[M14 Shooter]

Why did Israel attack those sites?

Good question.

One that you apparently do not have an answer for.
Without considering the impetus behind for the Israeli strikes, how is it possible to condemn Israel in any way shape of form for undertaking them?

 

[Slyhunter]

The UN issued its report and it stated exactly what I have been telling you for months. All your BS means nothing.

UN Admits Palestinians used UN schools to launch rockets and store weapons US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum

 

[Slyhunter]

So, post a link to where you read "page 20"

UN Admits Palestinians used UN schools to launch rockets and store weapons US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum