Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News
Thursday January 15, 2009
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees UNRWA reported that its offices were shelled in Gaza City
by the Israeli army on Thursday midday.
According to UNRWA sources the offices located in
Tall-al Hawa area in Gaza city sustained damage and caught fire, three UN
employees were injured in the attack.
In response to the Israeli attack the UNRWA announced
the halt of its operations in the Gaza Strip. The United Nations Relief and
Works Agency is providing 700, 000 Palestinians with their daily needs of
food, since the Israeli attack on Gaza UNRWA schools became a shelter for
those people that fled the Israeli shelling.
This is not the first time the Israeli army attack the
UNRWA during the latest military offensive. On Tuesday of last week, a
UN-run school was attacked.
At least 43 civilians were killed and 100 others
wounded, when the Israeli troops launched an attack on a school run by the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency UNRWA in the northern Gaza town of
Jabaliya. On Thursday of the same week the military attacked an aid convey
for the UNRWA killing a driver and injuring another.
Earlier Rami AL Meghari, IMEMC corresponded in Gaza,
said that Israeli tanks have moved into the Gaza City center, near a United
Nations relief compound. The tanks have been randomly shelling residential
areas.
IMEMC Talked to Dr. Ass'ad Abu Khalaf, who live in
Tall-al Hawa, he said that tanks, naval boats and jetfighters are shelling
the residential area, he added that most of his neighbors have left, but
still for those who have no where to go like him they stayed in their homes.
During the five minutes interview over the phone with
Dr. Ass'ad the studio staff of IMEMC was able to listen to the sounds of the
shells and airstrikes targeting Tall-al Hawa.
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