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Source: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=234931&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

IDF Has Tape of UNRWA Man's Last Moments

(Ha'aretz/AP) UN worker Iain Hook, killed in the Jenin refugee camp during an Israeli-Palestinian clash, phoned an IDF army officer minutes before his death and said Palestinians were breaking into the UN compound, according to a tape released by the IDF Tuesday. Cpt. Peter Lerner, the IDF's liaison with international groups, received a voice mail less than an hour before Hook was killed: "Hi Peter, it's Iain here. I'm just making a progress report, really. We're pinned down in the compound. The shabab (armed gangs) have knocked a hole in the wall, which I'm not happy about at all. I'm trying to keep them out and I will just keep my people pinned down in the corner until I hear from you. OK? Over." Israel had said, and UN officials denied, that Palestinian gunmen were firing from the UN compound.

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