{"id":195499,"date":"2010-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=195499"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:01:21","slug":"auto-insert-195499","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-195499\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel compensates UN for damages during last year\u2019s Gaza offensive &#8211; UN news item"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Israel compensates UN for damages during last year&#8217;s Gaza offensive<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">22 January 2010 &#8211; Israel has paid the United Nations $10.5 million for damage to the world body&#8217;s properties in Gaza during last year&#8217;s Israeli offensive against Hamas. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">During the three-week operation, which Israel says it launched in response to rocket attacks against it, Israeli shells struck the UN&#8217;s main centre in Gaza City, setting ablaze a warehouse with hundreds of tons of food and medicine, and at least three UN schools run for Palestinian refugee children were also attacked. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The incidents were investigated by the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry early last year, after which Israel and the UN held discussions over compensation.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8220;With this payment, the United Nations has agreed that the financial issues relating to those incidents referred to in the terms of reference of the Board of Inquiry are concluded,&#8221; Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon&#8217;s spokesman Martin Nesirky told a news briefing today. &#8220;The Secretary-General would like to record the cooperative approach that the Government of Israel has shown in the course of the discussions that led to this settlement.&#8221; <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel compensates UN for damages during last year&#8217;s Gaza offensive 22 January 2010 &#8211; Israel has paid the United Nations $10.5 million for damage to the world body&#8217;s properties in Gaza during last year&#8217;s Israeli offensive against Hamas. 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