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Sunday, August 3, 2014
UK foreign sect’y ‘appalled’ by UNRWA strike
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBritish Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says he spoke to Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni by phone and commented on the shelling of a UN school where Palestinians were sheltering that killed 10 people.
“I am appalled at reports of further civilian casualties in the vicinity of a UN-run school housing Palestinians displaced by the Gaza conflict in Rafah this morning,” Hammond says.
“The facts are not yet clear, but it is tragic that there are further losses of life in a place which is being used as a shelter.”
He also welcomes signs that Israeli forces would withdraw from Gaza.
The IDF spokesman’s office says that the army “targeted three PIJ terrorists onboard a motorcycle in vicinity of an UNRWA school in Rafah. The IDF is reviewing the consequences of this strike.”
— AFP
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