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Titolo: UN slates Israel Gaza 'attacks'

 UN slates Israel Gaza 'attacks'
            The UN has said 53 of its installations were
            damaged or destroyed during the conflict [AFP]
The United Nations has criticised Israel for targetting its installations 
during its 22-day war on Gaza in a new report.
The UN report, commissioned by Ban Ki-Moon, the UN secretary-general, said 
the Israeli military intentionally fired at UN facilities and civilians 
hiding in them during the war and used disproportionate force.
The report's summary accused the Israeli army of "varying degrees of 
negligence or recklessness with regard to United Nations premises and to the 
safety of UN staff and other civilians within those premises, with 
consequent deaths, injuries and extensive physical damage and loss of 
property."
Ban said at a news conference on Tuesday that the aim of the report, which 
is not legally binding, was to establish "a clear record of the facts" 
surrounding incidents involving UN premises and personnel.
A total of 53 installations used by the United Nations Relief and Works 
agency (UNRWA) were damaged or destroyed during Israel's Gaza campaign, 
including 37 schools - six of which were being used as emergency shelters - 
six health centres, and two warehouses, the UN agency said.
Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey in New York said the UN secretary-general was 
still determining the UN's course of action over the report's 11 
recommendations, although the report says the UN will seek reparations for 
damages and will meet the Israeli government.
Israel's army concluded its own report into the three week war on Gaza in 
late April, finding that Israel followed international law and that while 
errors occurred they were "unvoidable".
Notorious incident
The report found that in six out of the nine incidents involving UN premises 
or operations that it investigated, "the death, injuries and damage involved 
were caused by military actions ... by the IDF [Israeli army]".
The investigation included one of the most notorious incidents in the war, 
when up to 40 people are believed to have died at a UN school in Jabaliya 
after Israeli mortar shells struck the area.
The UN initially said the shells had hit the school but later retracted the 
claim, while Israel initially said its forces were responding to firing from 
within the school, but also later reportedly withdrew the statement, 
although the UN report noted the claim still appeared on the Israeli foreign 
ministry's website as of Tuesday.
The report also recommended that because there had been "many incidents" 
during the war involving civilian victims, an impartial inquiry should be 
mandated "to investigate allegations of violations of international law in 
Gaza and southern Israel by the IDF [Israeli army] and by Hamas and other 
Palestinian militants".
Israel's 22-day war on Gaza left more than 1,400 Palestinians dead, 
including around 400 children, Gaza health officials said, along with 13 
Israelis.
Report 'biased'
Much of the coastal territory was also left in ruins.
      The UN has called for an impartial inquiry into alleged crimes during 
the war [AFP]
The Israeli foreign ministry rejected the report, saying in a statement it 
had determined that "in both spirit and language, the report is tendentious, 
patently biased, and ignores the facts presented to the committee".
"The committee has preferred the claims of Hamas, a murderous terror 
organisation, and by doing so has misled the world."
Israel has said the aim of its operations in Gaza was to cripple the 
Palestinian group Hamas's ability to launch rockets into the south of 
Israel.
Earlier this month an Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson confirmed to Al 
Jazeera that it would not co-operate with a separate UN Human Rights Council 
investigation into alleged war crimes during the assault on the Gaza Strip.
'Unacceptable' attacks
International rights groups have accused both the Israeli military and 
Palestinian groups such as Hamas of violations throughout the conflict.
The UN secretary-general commissioned the report, written by a special 
committee led by Ian Martin, former head of Amnesty International, in 
January, shortly after fighting ended.
At the time, Ban said he was angered by the "unacceptable" Israeli attacks 
on civilians and UN relief agency (Unrwa) compounds.
"Over the past several weeks, unacceptable and terrible situations have 
taken place against the civilian people and against particularly the United 
Nations compounds, where many civilians were sheltered," he said at the 
World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 30.
       Source: Al Jazeera and agencies

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