Spokesman denies UNRWA gave rockets to Hamas

Chris Gunness, the UNRWA spokesman in Gaza, tells Channel 2 that it’s a “complete falsehood” to claim that UNRWA gave the rockets it found in its schools straight back to Hamas, as Israel has claimed. As anywhere else in the world, “the local bomb disposal experts are called in and they are taken away,” he says.

Asked how he would suggest Israel respond to being attacked by a terror group that terrorizes its people and uses locals as human shields, Gunness replies: “Make peace the only way forward.”

He says 225,000 Gazans are now sheltering in UNRWA facilities and that UNRWA is collapsing under the strain; eight UNRWA staff have been killed. He has no doubt that Israeli bombs hit the UN facilities where people have died in recent days, even though Israel has denied a role in some of the incidents.

In Gaza now, he says, there is “nowhere safe to run and nowhere safe to hide.”