BBC (Sunday): UN warns over Israeli demolitions

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From the BBC Online
Dated Sunday January 25 19:25 GMT (11:25 am PST)

UN warns over Israeli demolitions
By James Rodgers
BBC Gaza correspondent

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees is warning that it may not be able to cope with the number of people made homeless by Israeli army demolitions.
The head of the organisation, Peter Hansen - on a visit to the southern Gaza Strip - condemned Israel's policy of demolishing houses as a hugely disproportionate military response.
Mr Hansen was jostled by an angry crowd, who said that the UN should have rebuilt homes where they were destroyed.
In Rafah, near the Egyptian border, Israeli troops destroyed buildings which they say have been used as firing positions, or to conceal tunnels for smuggling weapons.

Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, if Israel feels there is a military necessity to control Rafah and demolish structures to prevent arms smuggling, then she may act accordingly. However, the displaced residents should be relocated and aid provided.

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1. More on demolitions:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/25/international1452EST0516.DTL

Israeli demolitions over three years have left 10 percent of refugee camp's residents homeless

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"Sami Homs' family of 12 has been living in a single room since his house was razed by Israel three months ago, and now the Palestinian laborer fears the bulldozers will strike again.

Like his demolished house, Homs' tiny new shelter, a former kiosk, stands in the path of demolition -- a wide buffer zone Palestinians say Israel is carving into the Rafah camp.

Raids over the past three years have left more than 8,600 people homeless, or nearly 10 percent of the camp's 90,000 residents, local officials say. Since the outbreak of fighting in September 2000, Israel has razed 869 houses in Rafah and partially demolished 629 others, local Palestinians claim."

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2. Do we need more proof that the UN is the leading anti-semetic agency???

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