Finding. The ammunition was found in the heart of the civilian population.
Jerusalem – The Israeli army yesterday claimed to have discovered “one of the largest weapons warehouses in the Gaza Strip” near “civilian buildings.”
“One of the largest weapons caches in the Gaza Strip was discovered near a clinic and a school in the north” of the Palestinian territory by a military unit, the army said in a statement. It contained “hundreds of RPG anti-tank rocket launchers and their ammunition, dozens of anti-tank missiles, dozens of explosive devices, long-range missiles intended to reach central Israel, dozens of grenades and drones,” according to the statement.
“The soldiers seized the weapons. Some were destroyed on site, others were sent for investigation,” the army stated.
The location of the warehouse, “in the heart of the civilian population,” “is further proof of how Hamas cynically uses the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip as human shields,” he added.
For his part, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, warned the Security Council yesterday that the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip “may aggravate existing threats to international peace and security.” .
The United States, one of the five countries with veto power in the 15-member Council, opposes a ceasefire, believing that such a measure would only benefit Palestinian terrorists.
Washington supports humanitarian pauses to protect civilians and allow the release of hostages taken by Hamas in an attack on Israel on October 7. Last month he abstained from the vote to allow the Security Council to adopt a resolution calling for pauses in fighting.
Guterres invoked the rarely used Article 99 of the founding UN Charter that allows him to “draw the attention of the Security Council to any matter that, in his opinion, may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security.”
Agencies AFP and Reuters
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