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Nations United Against Israel

?UN a cover for Islamic terror?


By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
October 03, 2004

“It is inconceivable that the UN, which is supposed to be spreading peace, is being used as a cover for terror” against Jewish men, women and children, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dan Gillerman told Army Radio Friday.

Gillerman was speaking following the release of surveillance footage showing Hamas terrorists loading a Kassam rocket into the back of a UN ambulance for safe transport.

The Israeli ambassador said he would lobby UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to fire the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) in the Gaza Strip, Peter Hansen.

Hansen “is a hater of Israel. He is the source of the problem,” Gillerman said.

Friday’s incident was far from isolated, and Israel possesses documentation of past UN involvement in the terrorist activities of Hamas and Hizballah.

Incriminating footage

On Friday evening, Israeli television viewers were presented by Channel Two News with surveillence footage shot earlier in the day above Gaza City showing “Palestinian” terrorists loading a missile into the back of a van.

As the angle widened, the vehicle was clearly identified as an ambulance bearing the letters “UN”.

The footage was shot by an unmanned drone deployed as part of ongoing IDF anti-terror operations in northern Gaza.

Cover for terror

While anti-Israel rhetoric is nothing new at the UN, the incident proved that the world body is also being used as a physical tool in the terrorist war against Israel’s Jews, Gillerman said.

“We view this incident very seriously, and I intend on Monday to turn to the UN secretary-general with a very strong complaint,” he told Army Radio.

“It is unacceptable that the UN, which is supposed to further the goals of peace, will turn into a shelter for murderers,” the ambassador said.

‘Source of the problem’

Gillerman singled out local UNWRA chief Peter Hansen as the source of the problem, at least in Gaza.

“He is a hater of Israel. He is the source of the problem. The UN needs to ask if this man should hold such a central position.”

Hansen, an open supporter of Arab efforts to establish another Islamic Arab nation on ancient Jewish lands, vehemently denied the charge, and insisted the item seen loaded into the ambulance was a stretcher.

Repeat performance

Friday’s use of UN humanitarian equipment in the terrorist war against Israel was hardly an isolated incident.

On several occasions terrorists in both Gaza and Samaria have been spotted taking refuge inside UN vehicles and facilities in order to avoid IDF troops.

In the north, Hizballah terrorists actually drove a UN-marked vehicle up to Lebanon’s border with Israel in October 2000 and ambushed three IDF soldiers there. It was later learned the three, who were kidnapped, died from wounds sustained during the attack.

That incident occurred under the direct observation of a nearby UN border post filled with armed “peacekeepers”.

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