Israel Matzav

UNRWA allowed to take four submachine guns into Gaza

UNRWA, which enables the 'Palestinians' to maintain the myth of being 'refugees' after four generations, has been allowed by the IDF to take four submachine guns into Gaza. The weapons will be used to protect UNRWA director John Ging and UNRWA's commissioner general Fillipo Grandi. Ging has been complaining for three years that the handguns used by his security guards are not enough.

The UN body asked for German Heckler and Koch submachine guns for UNRWA's commissioner general, Filippo Grandi, and for Ging.

The organization told Israeli security officials that its personnel are being threatened by Hamas representatives. UNRWA operates 221 schools in Gaza and dozens of medical centers, employment centers and women's help centers.

More than a million refugees and their descendents are registered with UNRWA, which operates eight refugee camps in Gaza.

In March 2007, gunmen fired at Ging's convoy and he escaped without injury. In the summer of 2007, armed men again attacked him, in Rafah, killing one. After previous assurances by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories that authorization was forthcoming, in July, Interior Minister Eli Yishai said he would not approve the request.

Ya'akov Imut, in charge of weapons registration at the Interior Ministry, said the ministry turned down the request because it is authorized only to license handguns. Only last week, after pressure from the UN, was the request approved.

The COGAT office said "the delay was because UNRWA received authorization from the Germans only five months ago."

UNRWA's representative in Israel said it does not issue responses on security matters.

I would never have agreed to give them these weapons. If the people he's supposed to be helping are threatening his life, then Ging should leave and leave them to rot.

Labels: Hamas threats, John Ging, submachine guns, UNRWA

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:15 PM