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23-05-04, 16:51
UN says IDF troops raid UN office in Jenin
Israel Defense Forces troops raided the office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in the West Bank town of Jenin, threatened a UN official and detained him for three hours, an UNRWA statement said Sunday.
UNWRA is the UN agency in charge of providing aide to Palestinian refugees.
According to the statement, IDF troops broke into the UNRWA office for the Jenin Camp Reconstruction Project on May 20, and fired a shot in the direction of the senior project manager, Paul Wolstenholme.
Soldiers then blindfolded, handcuffed and detained Wolstenholme for three hours and threatened him, the statement said.
IDF sources on Sunday said in response that the troops entered the building during an arrest operation in the city, and detained Wolstenholme after he refused to identify himself. After ascertaining his identity the troops apologized and left the area, the sources said.
UNWRA pointed out that this was the second time IDF troops forcefully entered the Jenin office. On November 22, 2002, an Israeli soldier shot and killed Iain Hook, then the UNRWA project manager, during a gunfight in the Jenin refugee camp.
The army apologized for that, but UNWRA said the fact that the official was detained and threatened and his predecessor was killed by an IDF soldier was "of great concern."
"I am personally upset and alarmed," Anders Fange, director of UNWRA's West Bank operations said in the statement. "Israel has agreed to ensure the protection and security of the personnel, installation and property of UNWRA, but this was not done in the present case."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/430985.html
Israel wil af van de VN aanwezigheid in de West-Bank en Gaza, zodat ze ongestoord hun uitroeing van de Palestijnen kan voortzetten.
Israel Defense Forces troops raided the office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in the West Bank town of Jenin, threatened a UN official and detained him for three hours, an UNRWA statement said Sunday.
UNWRA is the UN agency in charge of providing aide to Palestinian refugees.
According to the statement, IDF troops broke into the UNRWA office for the Jenin Camp Reconstruction Project on May 20, and fired a shot in the direction of the senior project manager, Paul Wolstenholme.
Soldiers then blindfolded, handcuffed and detained Wolstenholme for three hours and threatened him, the statement said.
IDF sources on Sunday said in response that the troops entered the building during an arrest operation in the city, and detained Wolstenholme after he refused to identify himself. After ascertaining his identity the troops apologized and left the area, the sources said.
UNWRA pointed out that this was the second time IDF troops forcefully entered the Jenin office. On November 22, 2002, an Israeli soldier shot and killed Iain Hook, then the UNRWA project manager, during a gunfight in the Jenin refugee camp.
The army apologized for that, but UNWRA said the fact that the official was detained and threatened and his predecessor was killed by an IDF soldier was "of great concern."
"I am personally upset and alarmed," Anders Fange, director of UNWRA's West Bank operations said in the statement. "Israel has agreed to ensure the protection and security of the personnel, installation and property of UNWRA, but this was not done in the present case."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/430985.html
Israel wil af van de VN aanwezigheid in de West-Bank en Gaza, zodat ze ongestoord hun uitroeing van de Palestijnen kan voortzetten.