Egypt Daily News – The spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, stated that “an Israeli shell targeted our headquarters in Gaza,” emphasizing that “Israel knew it was ours, and we demand accountability for those responsible.”
Last Wednesday, the United Nations announced that one of its staff members in Gaza was killed due to Israeli shelling, which resumed on the morning of March 18.
During a press conference in Brussels, the Executive Director of the UN Office said, “One of our colleagues was killed, and five others were seriously injured in the shelling in Gaza.”
The UN official added that the targeted site was in an isolated area of Gaza, expressing shock over the attack on a UN team in the region.
Israel is known to target U.N. positions with no accountability, going back to the Qana Massacre that took place on April 18, 1996, near Qana, a village in then Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon, when the Israeli military fired artillery shells at a United Nations compound, which was sheltering around 800 Lebanese civilians, killing 106 and injuring around 116. Four Fijian United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon soldiers were also seriously injured.
The 2006 Qana airstrike (also referred to as the 2006 Qana massacre or the second Qana massacre was an airstrike carried out by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) on a three-story building in the small community of al-Khuraybah near the South Lebanese village of Qana on July 30, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War. The strike killed 28 civilians, 16 of whom were children.
