UN compound shelled in response to fire: Olmert
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told visiting UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday that Israeli troops had shelled a UN compound in Gaza in response to fire coming from the building.
"The Israeli forces were attacked from there and their response was severe," Olmert's office quoted him as telling Ban
The NYT reports:
The death toll among Palestinians rose to at least 1,076, according to Reuters, which quoted the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. At least 13 Israelis have been killed.
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"With every false allegation, the credibility of those accusing us is incrementally diminished," he [the UN spokesman] said. He said that Israel had used three shells of white phosphorous at the compound, according to people at the site, citing the fact that fires caused by the shells had burned all day as evidence that the chemical was used. White phosphorous creates smoke on a battlefield and can burn like a kind of napalm. There was no immediate response from Israel.
Then there is this:"
GENEVA (AFP) — About 100 patients and medical staff were put at risk when a hospital in Gaza City suffered a "direct hit" in an Israeli air strike, the international Red Cross said on Thursday.
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Meanwhile, one of the two Palestine Red Crescent warehouses in Gaza with relief supplies was shelled on Thursday morning and set ablaze, the Geneva-based ICRC reported.
No word from Olmert about whether the patients in the hospital also fired into Israel.