{"id":203364,"date":"2003-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=203364"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:33:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:33:33","slug":"auto-insert-203364","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-203364\/","title":{"rendered":"UNWRA staffer’s killing – UNRWA letter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Re "Killing of U.N. Aide by Israel Bares Rift With Relief Agency" (front page, Jan. 4, [2003]):<\/p>\n

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   Israel's claims to the contrary, the initial investigation by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency confirms that there was no gunfire from the United Nations compound in which Iain Hook, a staff member, was killed by the Israeli Army.  <\/p>\n

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    The article described the Israeli government's "unofficial response" to the killing as "a damning intelligence report." But this report was never shared with Unrwa despite a specific request.<\/p>\n

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   The Israeli authorities have not provided the agency with a shred of evidence in support of the allegations that "guerrillas have hijacked" the agency's buildings, staff and operations. It is a complete falsehood to assert, as the report did, that Palestinian militants stored ammunition in United Nations schools and smuggled arms in United Nations ambulances.<\/p>\n

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   The agency maintains vigilant oversight of its facilities and operations and ensures that its staff maintains professional standards of conduct.<\/p>\n

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PAUL MCCANN<\/p>\n

Chief, Public Information<\/p>\n

Unrwa Headquarters, Gaza<\/p>\n

Gaza, Jan. 6, 2003   <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Re "Killing of U.N. Aide by Israel Bares Rift With Relief Agency" (front page, Jan. 4, [2003]):    Israel's claims to the contrary, the initial investigation by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency confirms that there was no gunfire from the United Nations compound in which Iain Hook, a staff member, was killed by the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2841],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1857,2161],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-203364","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-letter","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-intifadah-ii","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/203364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/203364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=203364"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=203364"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=203364"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=203364"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=203364"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=203364"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=203364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}