  {"id":206582,"date":"2007-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=206582"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:12:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:12:39","slug":"auto-insert-206582","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-206582\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban Ki-moon asks for investigation of rocket attack from ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA school in Gaza &#8211; ±¬ÁÏÍø news item"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Ban Ki-moon asks for investigation of rocket attack from ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA school in Gaza<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><i>8 November 2007<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;&#8211; Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has deplored a rocket attack against Israel that was launched from a school in the Gaza Strip run by the United Nations agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">±¬ÁÏÍø spokesperson Marie Okabe told reporters that Mr. Ban had asked the ±¬ÁÏÍø Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (±¬ÁÏÍøRWA) to conduct a full investigation of last week&#8217;s incident. <\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Inquiries made so far indicate that the school had been evacuated at the time of the rocket attack to ensure the safety of both the staff and the pupils during an Israeli military incursion. Palestinian militants entered the school while it was empty and then fired rockets from the compound. <\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8220;The Secretary-General condemns this abuse of ±¬ÁÏÍø facilities, which is a serious violation of the ±¬ÁÏÍø&#8217;s privileges and immunities,&#8221; Ms. Okabe said. &#8220;He calls on all involved in this conflict to avoid actions that endanger the lives of civilians, especially children, and that put at risk ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA&#8217;s ability to carry out its humanitarian mission.&#8221; <\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Yesterday ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Commissioner-General Karen Koning AbuZayd said the agency&#8217;s installations had also been violated in the past and it had complained many times to both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict about this. <\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8220;I think the powers in Gaza right now will try to do something,&#8221; Ms. AbuZayd said. &#8220;They are willing to try to protect the ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA installations. 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