The United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) condemns the attack on a United Nations
facility in Gaza on the morning of 1 January 2006 which included the beating
of a UN guard by unknown assailants before they bombed the premises. UNRWA
expresses its serious concern that for the first time in Gaza a UN facility
has been deliberately attacked and considers it a grave escalation.
UNRWA takes note of the wide condemnation
by the Palestinian Authority and leading figures and calls on the relevant
officials to take the needed steps to prevent such attacks in the future
and to apprehend those who carried out this treacherous act.
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