UNITED NATIONS, June 28: The United Nations has condemned Monday’s attack on a recreational facility used by children in occupied Gaza territory, the second such incident in a month.
A group of about 25 armed and masked men attacked and set fire to the facility on the beach in Nuseirat that was being used to host the Summer Games, run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
No one was hurt in the incident, which follows a similar attack on May 23 when a group of 30 armed and masked men attacked and set fire to an UNRWA Summer Games facility that was under construction on the beach in Gaza City.
The UN Secretary-General’s spokesman Martin Nesriky said that so far they had not been able to determine the identity of the attackers.
“Cowardly and despicable” is how John Ging, UNRWA’s Director of Operations in Gaza, described Monday’s attack.
“The overwhelming success of UNRWA’s Summer Games has once again obviously frustrated those that are intolerant of children’s happiness,” he added.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called the Summer Games, which is in its fourth year, “a rare opportunity for relief from the deprivations and difficulties of everyday life in Gaza,” which has suffered from a three-year-long blockade imposed by Israel for what it called security reasons after
Hamas took power there in 2007.
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UN condemns attack on children facility in Gaza
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