{"id":101683,"date":"2014-07-31T07:17:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T07:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=101683"},"modified":"2014-08-02T06:20:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T06:20:08","slug":"us-resupplying-israel-with-ammunition-even-after-condemning-shelling-of-gaza-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=101683","title":{"rendered":"US resupplying Israel with ammunition even after condemning shelling of Gaza school"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Russia Today &#8212; July 30, 2014<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_101686\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/An-Israeli-mobile-artillery-unit-fires-on-Gaza-July-28.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101686\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/An-Israeli-mobile-artillery-unit-fires-on-Gaza-July-28-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires on Gaza July 28. Click to enlarge\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires on Gaza July 28. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">No sooner than the White House condemned the shelling of a United Nations-operated school in Gaza on Wednesday did news break that the Pentagon will supply the Israeli military with new ammunition to further their campaign on the war-ravaged city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That afternoon, <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/07\/30\/world\/meast\/mideast-crisis\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">CNN reported <\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>that the United States military will be honoring a request from Israel for assistance in the midst of their weeks-long campaign against militants from Hamas residing in Gaza City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to the network, Pentagon officials have confirmed that the US will honor a request from Israel for several types of ammunition, including 120mm mortar rounds and 40mm ammunition for grenade launchers. The exchange will not be an emergency sale, the unnamed officials said, and is coming from a stockpile of weapons maintained by the US in Israel worth more than $1 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Only moments beforehand, however, the White House officially spoke out against an attack attributed to the IDF from earlier that day on an UN Relief and Works Agency school in Gaza\u2019s Jabaliya refugee camp. Officials in Gaza say the shelling killed at least 15 and wounded 90 others, and is but the latest strike waged by the IDF in a war against Hamas that continues to claim the lives of Palestinian civilians caught in the crossfire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe United States condemns the shelling of a UNRWA school in Gaza, which reportedly killed and injured innocent Palestinians \u2013 including children \u2013 and UN humanitarian workers,\u201d Bernadette Meehan, a spokesperson for US President Barack Obama\u2019s National Security Council, said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#39;s the full statement from NSC&#39;s Bernadette Meehan <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/LjEbJc23WA\">pic.twitter.com\/LjEbJc23WA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZekeJMiller\/status\/494537041301209088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;We are extremely concerned that thousands of internally displaced Palestinians who have been called on by the Israeli military to evacuate their homes are not safe in UN designated shelters in Gaza. We also condemn those responsible for hiding weapons in United Nations facilities in Gaza. All of these actions, and similar ones earlier in the conflict, are inconsistent with the UN\u2019s neutrality. This violence underscores the need to achieve a cease-fire as soon as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The White House neglected to blame Israel by name for the attack, but both a military spokesperson and a lieutenant colonel in the IDF admitted the nation\u2019s role in the offensive to<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/31\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza.html?_r=0\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">New York Times<\/span><\/a> <\/strong><\/span>journalists reporting from Gaza on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Palestinian militants \u201copened fire at Israeli soldiers from the vicinity\u201d of the school early Wednesday, the spokesperson told the paper, and Israeli troops \u201cresponded by firing toward the origins of the fire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Pierre Kr\u00e4henb\u00fchl, the commissioner-general of the UNRWA, tweeted that Wednesday\u2019s attack was the sixth time one of his organization\u2019s school have been hit by one of these strikes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cChildren, woman and men killed [and] injured as they slept in place where they should have been safe and protected. They were not. Intolerable,\u201d he wrote in one Twitter post\u2019 \u201cOur staff leading [international] response are being killed. This is a breaking point,\u201d in another.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Children, women and men killed &amp; injured as they slept in place where they should have been safe and protected. They were not. Intolerable.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pierre Kr\u00e4henb\u00fchl (@PKraehenbuehl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PKraehenbuehl\/status\/494410637913907200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is 6th time one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNRWA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UNRWA<\/a> schools has been struck. Our staff leading int&#39;l response are being killed. This is a breaking point.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pierre Kr\u00e4henb\u00fchl (@PKraehenbuehl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PKraehenbuehl\/status\/494428911816544257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Last week, the UN Human Rights Council agreed to investigate the \u201cwidespread, systematic and gross violations of international human rights and fundamental freedoms\u201d that have been attributed to Israel since their latest campaign on Gaza launched on June 13. Twenty-nine countries approved the motion, with the US being the only abstainer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As Israel\u2019s operation escalated through the weekend, on Monday the UN Security Council finally called for both Israel and Hamas &#8220;to accept and fully implement the humanitarian cease-fire into the Eid period and beyond.&#8221; Just two days later, the Pentagon will reportedly now re-supply one of the two parties at war with additional ammunition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said earlier this week that at least 1,242 people there have died since the latest Israeli operation began. As many as 80 percent of the dead may be civilians, the UN has estimated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"%20http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/176820-pentagon-idf-unrwa-ammunition\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing what America has become famous for: doing one thing but saying something else<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101683"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101708,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101683\/revisions\/101708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}