British UN worker unlawfully shot

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A British UN project manager shot by an Israeli sniper was unlawfully killed, a UK inquest has concluded.


'Not mistaken'

Earlier Dr Peter Hansen, former Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said that over the past four years 13 UNRWA workers, including Mr Hook, had been shot in similar circumstances by the Israeli army

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[bemildred]

1. Restating the obvious once again. nt

[4freethinking]

2. Israel killing UN representatives is nothing new

Israel killing UN observers and workers has occurred from time to time starting with Count Folke Bernadotte.

[Wordie]

3. Might this help explain the numerous UN sanctions against Israel? eom

[Tom Joad]

4. It is Israel that spends an disproportionate amount of its limited

resources attacking the UN, both in word and in deed.

It is not the other way around.

Usually Israeli ammo is saved for Palestinian school girls, just to make sure they get a confirmed kill.

[manic expression]

5. Yeah

they usually beat nationals to pulp instead of shoot them. Oh, well.

Semi-random links:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schoolsworldwide/story/0,,1332220,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,582253,00.html

[4freethinking]

7. I forgot

It's not just UN observers or workers getting killed by Israel. It's also UN peacekeepers. Indian peacekeepers in 1967 and Fijian peacekeepers in 1998. This is all part of the utter contempt in which Israel holds the UN.

[Englander]

6. From the archives -

Jenin riddle: Why did an Israeli soldier shoot a British official in the back?

Jonathan Cook in Jenin, Chris McGreal in Jerusalem and Ewen MacAskill
Saturday December 7, 2002
The Guardian

Stand where the Israeli army sniper stood and the questions come flooding in.

Foremost among them is how the soldier who shot Iain Hook in the back in Jenin refugee camp could have mistaken the lanky British UN official with a mobile phone to his ear for a Palestinian youth waving a gun, as the army claims.

The sniper was only 25 metres from his victim, in daylight, and he had a telescopic sight.

More at;
Guardian Unlimited


Questions over UN worker's death

Friday, 16 December 2005,

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The job of the inquest was only to find out who had died and how, when and where he met his death. Not why.

But the jury heard clear evidence that it could not have been an accident.

The sniper was from the Israeli special forces, equipped with a medium to high powered rifle, probably with a red laser sight.

He also had radio communication with other troops who overlooked the compound.

And Mr Hook was known to the Israelis. He had to register himself with the authorities to work at the compound and each day passed through a whole host of army checkpoints.

Mr Wolstenholme believes it was not an accident: "It was a deliberate act."

More at;
BBC News