UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon slammed Israel today for its continued attacks on the Gaza Strip, saying he is “angry about what they are doing” after the attack on a UN-run school full of refugees.
“Why are you continuing to kill people?” Ban asked, adding “there are many other ways to resolve this issue without killing each other.” The Palestinian death toll is now at 865, with over 5,730 wounded.
The death toll is overwhelmingly civilian in nature, with roughly 24% of the slain children under the age of 18. Despite the attacks spanning the strip, hitting literally every town, Israel continues to order civilians out of their homes.By contrast, the Israeli death toll stands at 37, with 35 of them soldiers killed in fighting.
UN relief officials warned the humanitarian situation in Gaza is becoming dire, with roughly 44% of the strip now a “no-go zone” for civilians and many families running low on food and water, with no way to get out to get more.
Efforts to negotiate a ceasefire have gone poorly, with Israel continuing to talk escalation, and no plans emerging that either Israel or Hamas has found acceptable.
The attacks on Gaza are also fueling unrest in the occupied West Bank, where over 10,000 Palestinians took to the streets north of East Jerusalem to protest the war. Two of the protesters were killed and 200 others wounded by Israeli troops.
To isolating/blockade more of people in Gaza is the idea that Israel fascism regime have done for years, as Hitler and his fascist regime did during Second World War. Netanyahu regime doing exactly the same as his uncle Hitler done to working Jewish people in Gaza. In the other hand as Barack Hussein Obama managed to destroy the principals of democracy both at home and broad, people of the world need to prepare themselves for more of fascism action.
Rogue elements within the IDF have a golden opportunity to create a false flag operation.
The IDF has seized substantial Hamas armaments. Therefore using these armaments and firing into a UN school full of children then waiting for proof that the shells were not IDF shells would be a massive publicity boost for Israels bombing of Gaza. Not saying the IDF would do it but there are rogue elements in Israel's war machine just as within Palestine.
I doubt if Ban Ki-Moon understand the English language the guy is just a lame duck without any form of authority.
Ban Ki-moon is a western poodle. See here how the entire "free" west has voted http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/24/us-st…
The title seems to be a bit overstated. Ban Ki Moon criticized both parties evenhandedly for the massacre. He's very much in the pro Israel camp.
Virtually the entire civilized world is condemning Israel's slaughter of helpless civilians, calling Israel's conduct genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The United States is directly complicit in these crimes by supplying Israel with the state of the art weapons Israel is using against these helpless and unarmed innocent men, women and children. The question remains of how much longer the world body will tolerate Israel's violation of international laws and conventions before Israel is subjected to an arms embargo and a boycott on trade to isolate the Zionist regime, which is copying Hitler's conduct in World War II.