Posted on 01/15/2009 4:57:05 AM PST by Hadean
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israeli forces shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, setting fire to the compound filled with hundreds of refugees as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was in the region on a mission to end Israel's devastating offensive against the territory's Hamas rulers.
Ban expressed "outrage" over the bombing. He said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told him there had been a "grave mistake" and promised to pay extra attention to protecting U.N. installations. The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the bombing, which a U.N. official said injured at least three people.
Even as a top Israeli envoy went to Egypt to discuss a cease-fire proposal, the military pushed farther into Gaza in an apparent effort to step up pressure on Hamas. Ground forces thrust deep into a crowded neighborhood for the first time, sending terrified residents fleeing.
Shells also struck a hospital, five high-rise apartment buildings and a building housing media outlets in Gaza City, injuring several journalists.
Bullets entered another building housing The Associated Press offices, entering a room where two staffers were working but wounding no one. The Foreign Press Association, representing journalists covering Israel and the Palestinian territories, demanded a halt to attacks on press buildings.
The army has collected the locations of media organizations to avoid such attacks.
Israel launched its war on Dec. 27 in an effort to stop militant rocket fire from Gaza that has terrorized hundreds of thousands of Israelis. Some 1,100 Palestinians have been killed, roughly half of them civilians, according to U.N. and Palestinian medical officials. Thirteen Israelis also have died.
Israel says it will press ahead with the campaign until it receives guarantees of a complete halt to rocket fire and an end to weapons smuggling into Gaza from neighboring Egypt.
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Gee, that’s too bad.
Shell them again and again.
VirginiaMom
Why did the U.N. do nothing to stop the bombardment of Israel and force the Israelis to defend themselves? (sarc)
Typo, should say....
“as U.N. Chief Bang Ki-Boom”
I feel bad for the civilians that are not supporting hamas, oh wait...........
They should shell the big UN rats nest in NYC.
Rats!
I was hoping for the “other” HQ, which also harbor terrorists and their sympathizers.
Pretty please?
Israel says it will press ahead with the campaign until it receives guarantees of a complete halt to rocket fire and an end to weapons smuggling into Gaza from neighboring Egypt.
Bout time.
It other words... the Israeli’s automatic counter-barrage fire targeted the location of a HAMAS mortar/rocket launch.
And the UN is surprised that the return fire hit the launch site.
One can only wonder why Hamas was storing rockets and weapons in the UN Headquarters?
Does anybody else wonder why we still support the UN?
It tries to undermine the Constitution of the USA and
would love to cripple our Constitutional Republic.
In over 60 years No major politician has ever tried
to get the USA out of the UN.
16 out of 17 of the AMERICANS that were involved in
creating the UN were later identified, in sworn
testimony, as secret communist agents.
The first Secretary General was the AMERICAN Alger Hiss.
Alger Hiss served time in prison pursuant to his
involvement in a Communist spy ring.
Many of the other AMERICANS that were involved in
creating the UN fled the country, to avoid prosecution.
The ONE AMERICAN, that was involved in creating the UN
and was NOT later identified, in sworn testimony, as a
secret communist agent, was Dean Acheson.
Dean Acheson’s law firm was the legal representative
of the Soviet Union, in U. S. courts.
If the AMERICANS that were involved in creating the UN
were Communists, what do you think we got from the rest
of the world?
Terrorists were firing mortars from the UN headquarters?
Wonder why the UN isn’t complaining about that?
The U.N. is an accomplice in Hamas’ war against Israel. They have aided, abetted, and employed Hamas and Islamic Jihad. And now they are complaining that they have been targeted. I say target them again, and again, and again. And while we’re at it, how about kicking their sorry @$$ out of New York City!
You took the words right out of my mouth!
Interesting how the article mentions Israel starting "their" war". And here I thought that it was the people lobbing rockets at them that started the war.
Excellent! Best news I’ve heard so far this week.
The press is also the enemy. Notice how they quickly claim that of the 1100 Palestinian terrorists killed, “roughly half of them are civilians”.
“roughly” is a code word for “we in the press, completely fabricated the information to suit our agenda and have no clue what the real truth is.”
That tells me you weren't the target Ban. Or the number of dead would be reported.
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