UN to hush up report on Israel conduct?

Press TV
Thursday, April 2, 2009

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon may not release the findings of a report he ordered into the Israeli war on Gaza, Press TV has learned.

On Thursday, a spokesperson for Ban cast doubt on whether a report ordered into the three weeks of Israeli military operations in Gaza was meant for public use.

“No. As I said, (the secretary general) is going to first examine the report and decide what to do about it then. This is a report directed to him,” said spokeswoman Michele Montas, answering a question posed by a Press TV correspondent.

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She also denied knowledge of whether the secretary-general had committed himself to publicizing an executive summary of the report. “I do not know at this point. I can not answer that question. As I said, I will be able to answer it once” he has read it.

The international body had previously promised to help in ending the humanitarian crisis caused in the Gaza Strip by Israeli raids in late 2008 and early 2009.

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Over 1,350 Palestinians were killed in the operations — most of them civilians.

UN shelters — swarmed with refugees — were also targeted three times during the attacks, prompting the body to commission the report.

Political experts have linked the possible deferment to the secretary-general’s disinclination to go against Tel Aviv and the UN members favoring the continuation of the sixty years of Israeli occupation.

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