A UN automobile that was a part of a World Meals Program (WFP) convoy got here below Israeli fireplace on Tuesday evening, Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary-general, mentioned at present.
Mentioning that the Israeli authorities had been knowledgeable of the convoy's route, Dujarric mentioned the automobile had acquired “ten bullets”, fortuitously with no casualties.
Denouncing the shortage of coordination, Dujarric demanded an evidence from the Israeli military for the assault on the convoy. “If the data was not handed, if it was intentional, if there was another excuse … these are explanations we wish to get,” he mentioned.
The UN World Meals Program introduced this night that it’s suspending automobile motion within the Gaza Strip after the convoy was fired upon close to an Israeli military checkpoint.
This isn’t the primary time a UN convoy has come below fireplace in Gaza because the begin of the struggle between Israel and Hamas. In Could, an Indian UN worker was killed when the automobile he was touring in was hit.
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