UN envoy: Israel’s hand forced in Gaza op

18 July 2014, 11:02 pm

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Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor addresses the UN Security Council and says that Israel’s hand was forced in moving into the Gaza Strip after the murder of three Israeli teens, relentless rocket attacks and Hamas’s rejection of ceasefire proposals.

“I want to be clear – our forces are fighting in Gaza, but they are not fighting the people of Gaza,” he says. “There is no country in the world that would tolerate such an assault on its citizens and Israel should not be expected to either.”

“After three rounds of major assaults and over 12,000 rockets in nine years, it has become clear that Hamas is not interested in bringing quiet to Gaza,” Prosor says. He adds that the rockets found in an UNRWA school are only “the tip of the iceberg.”