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The Electronic Intifada
January 18, 2018
Operation Cast Lead – which began that day – was Israel's most comprehensive onslaught on Gaza in decades. Israel used its air force, navy, ... The next day, John Ging, UNRWA director of operations in Gaza, said during a press conference: “There is nowhere safe in Gaza. Everyone here is terrorized andÃâà...
Israel Today
December 14, 2017
Palestinian terrorists operating out of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip fired four rockets at southern Israel on Wednesday, but all they managed to damage was one of their own UN-run schools. Two of the rockets were identified as genuine threats and intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system.
Israel Today
October 30, 2017
UNRWA, the United Nations body that exists solely to serve Palestinians "refugees," has yet again discovered a terror tunnel running under one of its schools in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. UNRWA reportedly informed Israel immediately regarding the discovery. In the past, UNRWA has not been soÃâà...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
October 29, 2017
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Hamas tunnel was discovered under a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip. The tunnel was discovered on Oct. 15 by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which runs the school, and Israeli authorities were notified, the UNRWA said in a statementÃâà...
Haaretz
July 25, 2017
The IDF has offered a range of statements about the seven strikes on Gazan schools, but they have not denied knowing that the buildings were shelters. ... Blood and belongings of displaced Palestinians left after fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants near a U.N. school in Beit Hanoun, Gaza.
Haaretz
June 9, 2017
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which operates in Gaza, has discovered a Hamas tunnel passing under two of its schools in the enclave, it said on Friday. UNRWA condemned the existence of the tunnel in the Maghazi camp in a statement. "It is unacceptable that students and staff are placedÃâà...
The Guardian
May 19, 2017
Palestinian girls at a UN school in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. ... In his house in the Gaza Strip last month, a senior Hamas minister was explaining to me that the movement needed to modernise its policies when the lights suddenly cut out, as they so often do under Israel's siege of the territory.
The Guardian
August 3, 2014
On Friday, answering questions in a White House briefing, President Barack Obama condemned Hamas's then-reported abduction of an Israeli soldier – since reported by the Israeli army to have been killed, not abducted – but also said: “We must be clear that innocent civilians in Gaza caught in theÃâà...
