UN accuses Israel’s army of fatal attack on UN buildings in Gaza-Diepresse.com
The UN complex in the city of Deir Al-Balah was shot at by an « Israeli tank » last Wednesday, explained the spokesman for UN General Secretary António Guterres on Monday. A Bulgarian UN employee was killed.
The U.N. has blamed the Israeli army for the fatal attack on a UN building in the center of the Gaza Strip. According to the current state of information, the UN complex in the city of Deir al-Balah was shot at by an « Israeli tank » last Wednesday, explained the spokesman for UN Secretary General António Guterres, Stéphane Dujarric on Monday.
The United Nations would have decided to temporarily reduce their staff in the Palestinian area. Last Wednesday, the UN announced that in the attack on the building in Deir al-Balah, a Bulgarian employee of the UN office for project services (UNOPS) was killed by an explosive device. Six other UN employees, among them two Frenchmen and employees from Moldova, Northern Macedonia, Great Britain and a Palestinian, were seriously injured.
The one from the Hamas Controlled civil defense had also blamed the shelling of the Israeli army. The army denied that he had attacked the UN location.
Air strikes resumed
Last Tuesday, Israel resumed its massive air raids on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, where a ceasefire agreed between the two sides had previously been met. On Wednesday, the Israeli army also started a new ground in the Palestinian area.
With his offensive, Israel claims to increase the pressure on the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas in order to free the hostages that she still captured.
The war in the Gaza Strip had been triggered by the brutal attack by Hamas and with it allied Palestinian groups on Israel on October 7, 2023. A ceasefire has been going on since January 19, the first phase of the agreement concluded with the help of international intermediaries expired on March 1st. An agreement on the second phase has not yet been reached.
(APA)
