Singapore ‘condemns’ Israeli shelling of UN-designated shelter: MFA

SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said the Republic “condemns” the Israeli shelling of the Jabalia Elementary Girls School in Gaza, and the killing and injuring of innocent lives is “unpardonable”.


On July 29, it was reported that Israeli shells had struck a school in the Jabalia refugee camp, which had been designated a United Nations (UN) shelter for displaced Palestinians. A UN official gave the death toll as 16, while Gaza’s emergency services spokesman put it at “dozens” after giving an initial count of 20.



Commenting on this, a MFA spokesperson said: “We condemn the shelling of the Jabalia Elementary Girls School in Gaza, a designated United Nations (UN) shelter for displaced Palestinians, which has injured and killed innocent lives, including children. Such actions are unpardonable. UN humanitarian operations, personnel and premises must remain inviolable.”


The spokesperson added the incident, and the rising number of civilian deaths, “further strengthen the urgent need for an immediate cessation of all hostilities so that humanitarian aid can be provided to all those affected by the conflict”.

http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/singapore-condemns-israeli-shelling-un-designated-shelter-mfa

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Perhaps MFA should not have been too quick to condemn others...

http://outfront.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/25/has-israel-gaza-coverage-been-fair/

The Israeli helped us to build our National Defence when nobody else cared to help us?

This is how we repay with ingratitude to the greatest Jewish nations on earth?

MFA just following behind what the U.N. and U.S. have already said. Nothing surprising or controversial here.
When it comes to global conflict, we are the best 'fence sitters'.

Hope Israel will use this:

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what the hell is that Thai doing there?

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So far today, 73 rockets fired from Gaza have hit Israel; an additional 17 rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome.

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Iron Dome over-rated???

ScarFace said:

Perhaps MFA should not have been too quick to condemn others...

http://outfront.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/25/has-israel-gaza-coverage-been-fair/

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It happens before when a UN school was 'bombed' killing 43 people. UN officials claimed they had given Israeli forces coordinates of this building and others that they said were not associated with Hamas. The incident was immediately portrayed as a deliberate Israeli attack on innocent people and drew immediate world condemnations.

Israel maintain that she was just firing in the direction of hostile fire and identified 2 terrorists amongst the dead. Investigation later concluded that no one in the school compound was killed. The 43 people who died in the incident were all outside, on the street, where all three mortar shells landed.

Nearly a month after the incident, following the publication of accounts discrediting UNRWA’s story, Maxwell Gaylord, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Jerusalem, was forced to admit that Israel’s account was true after all, that the IDF mortar shells fell in the street near the compound, and not on the compound itself. Here is what was initially reported on BBC and note the update below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7823204.stm

In February 2009, the United Nations said that a clerical error had led it to report that Israeli mortars had struck a UN-run school in Jabaliya, Gaza, on 6 January killing about 40 people. Maxwell Gaylord, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Jerusalem, said that the Israeli Defense Force mortars fell in the street near the compound, and not on the compound itself. He said that the UN "would like to clarify that the shelling and all of the fatalities took place outside and not inside the school".

Sinkieland should not be too quick to jump to conclusion. Probably PAP already feel the pressure from the muslim community and was too eager to appease them. U have PM and Yacoob coming out to speak on the issue. PAP couldn't afford to lose anymore Malay ground since election is nearing.

Really? And the current one now?

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wtf is that?

3_M said:

Nearly a month after the incident, following the publication of accounts discrediting UNRWA’s story, Maxwell Gaylord, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Jerusalem, was forced to admit that Israel’s account was true after all, that the IDF mortar shells fell in the street near the compound, and not on the compound itself.

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If Israel is not the world's most compassionate enemy, I don't know who else is!

frenchbriefs said:

wtf is that?

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Part of pallywood acting scene.

frenchbriefs said:

wtf is that?

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Courtesy of Israel bravery in taking out the brain of a little girl in Gaza and posted earlier for the wanking pleasure of those loving the Jews and cheering them on in their
slaughter of innocents of Gaza.

kryonlight said:

If Israel is not the world's most compassionate enemy, I don't know who else is!

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yes so compassionate i want to pop them into the oven and turn on the gas for 15 minutes!!!!!fuck u u cheebye zionist!!!!

frenchbriefs said:

yes so compassionate i want to pop them into the oven and turn on the gas for 15 minutes!!!!!fuck u u cheebye zionist!!!!

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You must thank your Lord that the Jews are not as brutal as the Hutus.

They should just end the conflict by carpet bombing the entire gaza strip.

Misjudgment Day!

[h=1]U.N. Says ‘Evidence’ Points to Israel in Gaza School Attack[/h]
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that “all available evidence” suggested that Israeli artillery had hit a United Nations school in Gaza full of civilians who thought they were in a safe zone.

“Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children,” the secretary general told reporters in San Jose, Costa Rica, according to a transcript provided by his office. It was Mr. Ban’s strongest comments to date on attacks on United Nations installations in Gaza, where Palestinians have been taking shelter. Six United Nations staff members have been killed in the current conflict so far.

United Nations officials said that they had informed Israel 17 times of the precise location of the school and that there were civilians sheltering there, including once at 8:50 p.m., just hours before the attack on Wednesday.

Responding to Israeli statements that its soldiers were responding to rocket fire from near the school, the United Nations deputy secretary general, Jan Eliasson, drew attention to the Geneva Convention, which in laying out the rules of war unequivocally prohibits attacks on schools and hospitals.


“This is a moment where you really have to say ‘enough is enough,’ and you have to search for the right words to convince those who have the power to stop this,” Mr. Eliasson said.

Israeli soldiers need to consider where civilians are seeking refuge, even as they retaliate against Hamas rockets, Mr. Eliasson told reporters at an emotionally charged briefing at United Nations headquarters. The vast majority of those killed in Gaza have been civilians, he said, in sharp contrast to Israel, where only a handful of civilians have been killed and soldiers have made up the majority of the death toll.

Asked repeatedly whether Israel would be held accountable for possible war crimes, Mr. Eliasson would say only: “The scale of the response is of such a violent nature, questions of accountability come up.”


Sandwiched between the sea and the Israeli and Egyptian borders, Gazans basically have nowhere to run except to United Nations compounds, where they hope for protection, Mr. Eliasson said. Some 1.7 million people live in Gaza, a strip of land that he equated to the size of metropolitan Detroit or Washington.


He said also that officials in Mr. Ban’s office were drafting a series of options to protect civilians, in response to a vague request from the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, for an international protection force.

Security Council diplomats had asked Mr. Ban’s office to present options, and his legal advisers had met with Palestinian diplomats in recent days, but they were still far from coming up with anything specific. Among the parallels that have been floated are examples of international troops dispatched to East Timor and Kosovo.


United Nations diplomats have said privately that nothing of the sort can happen before a cease-fire and a promise from Hamas to stop firing rockets at Israel.


“We have discussed the issue with the Security Council,” Mr. Eliasson said. “It’s not an easy thing to think about.”