UN sticks up for Hamas

Of course the UN is sure there weren’t any Hamas terrorists shooting mortars from their school. It’s not like UNRWA has been infiltrated by terrorists, ever. Or use UNRWA ambulances as getaway cars, or to transport weapons.

And it’s not like the UN ever lies about Hamas.

U.N. officials are “99.9 percent certain” there were no Palestinian militants in or on the grounds of a school that was shelled by Israeli forces, killing more than 40 people, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, disputed Israel’s account of the bombardment of the northern Gaza school. But he said that if anyone could clear up the remaining uncertainty, “We would like them to come forward and be part of an impartial investigation.”

Chris Gunness apparently did not read the AP or New York Times reports, where Palestinian witnesses confirm that Hamas terrorists were firing at Israeli troops. Of course the Times buries the information far down in the article as well, but at least it’s there.

A young witness from Jabaliya, Ibrahim Amen, 16, said that he had seen one of the militants, whom he identified as Abu Khaled Abu Asker, in the area of the school right before the attack.

Ibrahim said he saw the militant after he answered calls for volunteers to pile sand around the camp “to help protect the resistance fighters.” Ibrahim went to pile sand near the school with his brother, Iyad, 20, who was then injured by the Israeli mortar fire.

Of course, Gunness could be right if you take him literally—the terrorists may not have been physically in the school grounds, but firing from just outside it. And that’s apparently enough for the UN to say there were no terrorists firing mortars at Israeli forces. It fits completely within the UN narrative, which has been anti-Israel since shortly after the creation of the Jewish State.