Israel punches back at UN chief for demanding probe into Gaza aid site shooting
Israel on Monday called a demand by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for an investigation into alleged deadly violence at a Gaza humanitarian aid site a “disgrace.”
Guterres had said he was “appalled” by reports that Palestinians were killed on Sunday on their way to a distribution site for aid, adding that the United Nations must be allowed to provide aid to Gazans, and that there was no military solution to the conflict in Gaza.
Ever since the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing much-needed food inside the Gaza Strip last week, Hamas-controlled authorities have repeatedly claimed that dozens of people were being shot amid violence at the GHF sites. The GHF has been emphatic that the claims are false and accuses the Hamas terror group of attempting to undermine its aid distribution by spreading panic.
“Even if you look very hard, there’s one word you won’t find in the secretary-general’s statement: Hamas,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein wrote on X.
“Not a word about the fact that Hamas is the one shooting civilians and trying to prevent them from collecting aid packages,” he said, referring to footage showing such incidents.
“Not a word about the fact that Hamas — © The Times of Israel
