Posted on 07/22/2014 9:14:40 AM PDT by Star Traveler
No country would accept rockets raining down on its civilians, and all countries and parties have an international obligation to protect civilians, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
Ban, who arrived in Israel as part of his effort – together with US Secretary of State John Kerry – to broker a cease-fire, said at a press conference with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that the UN position was clear: “We condemn strongly the rocket attacks, and these must stop immediately.”
Furthermore, he said, “we condemn the use of civilian sites, schools, hospitals and other civilian facilities for military purposes.”
Ban did not say anything during his brief comments to the press about the status of efforts to forge a cease-fire.
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Ceasefire Talks to Renew in Cairo as Egypt Slams Hamas [Israel]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3183468/posts
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/22/ceasefire-talks-to-renew-in-cairo-as-egypt-slams-hamas/
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Monday that Israel will continue its offensive “as long as necessary” to stop rocket attacks by Hamas and terrorist infiltration from Gaza.
Meanwhile, a senior Egyptian official on Sunday accused Hamas of neglecting Palestinian citizens after officials claimed that one of the terrorist group’s leaders, Khaled Mashaal, had been invited for Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire talks in Cairo.
“This is yet another lie in a string of lies made by Hamas leaders, who continue to live comfortable lives abroad while abandoning the Palestinian citizens who are being killed by the day and paying with their lives for the political and military escapades of the organization,” the official said, according to Israel Hayom.
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Egypt really hates Hamas, which is why Egypt and Israel are cooperating ... :-) ...
US, UN pushing hard for immediate cease-fire in Gaza [Israel]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3183454/posts
http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/US-UN-pushing-hard-for-immediate-cease-fire-368386
“If Hamas really wants a cease-fire, I am sure that we can get to that, but they don’t want one,” Netanyahu tells Sky News Arabic; Arab TV reports say humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza imminent.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in an interview with Sky News Arabic, pointed out that Israel accepted an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire last week. That proposal called for an immediate end to the violence, followed 48 hours later by negotiations regarding a more lasting agreement. Part of the proposal called for Palestinian Authority security officers, rather than Hamas men, to man the border crossing with Rafah.
In addition to that proposal, Israel – Netanyahu said – also accepted shorter “humanitarian” cease-fires brokered over the last few days first by the UN, and then by the Red Cross. In each case, he said, Hamas violated the cease-fire.
“If Hamas really wants a cease-fire, I am sure that we can get to that,” he said. “But they don’t want one.”
One government official said that while Israel was ready for a cease fire, “Hamas cannot come out of a ceasefire looking like a victor. Israel would be skeptical of any proposal that could be seen as a victory for Hamas.”
Ban Ki-moon is quite an improvement from UN Secretary Generals in the past. It might have something to do with growing up in South Korea when the history of what the Norkies did was still fresh.
Boutros Boutros Golly!
I haven’t been following this. Who started the shelling?
Hamas always starts it ... and that was true in this case, over three weeks and more ago.
Thank you. Kind of figured that. I see the liberal papers are favoring Hamas.
Just a few days ago in Qatar Ban condemned Israel’s self-defense as “atrocious action”.
The US is the spiritual father of all of the corrupt international organizations and Ban is at head. Korean or not, he is no friend of the West and no friend of Israel:
It’s a different UN Secretary General and there is also some changed alignments in the Arab and Muslim world, with Israel lining up with the Egyptian block. Go back to prior article from me to see the story about the new Muslim/Arab alignment.
I'm just saying that he's less of an enemy than previous Secretary Generals.
Sort of like comparing Bill Clinton to ObaMao.
I agree, but, it's not yet reached the "stern letter" phase.
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