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Israel Rejects UN Demand for Compensation for 2014 Gaza War Damage
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff and Herb Keinon - "On 22 March, the UN submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel a claim for reimbursement for the losses that the UN had sustained in seven incidents [during the Gaza war] in 2014," UN spokesman Farhan Haq told the Jerusalem Post. Israel says Hamas hid weapons in UN facilities and attacked its forces from or near those facilities. Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon called the UN demand "unacceptable," saying, "Everyone knows our intention was to protect our citizens, and not harm anyone else, while Hamas uses UN facilities to hide behind....The blame should go on Hamas."