Peter Hansen of the UNWRA asked today for an apology from Israeli Defence Minister Mofaz for what Hansen called “damaging and baseless allegations” that Palestinians used UN-supplied ambulances to spirit away Israeli soldiers’ body parts two weeks ago.
Well, this intelligence site says
Reuters has a video cassette of pictures taken during the Israeli army operation in the Zeitun quarter of Gaza City on May 11, 2004. It shows armed Palestinians using UNRWA ambulances to transport terrorists and possibly also remains of fallen Israeli soldiers.
Also, Israel’s Channel 10 aired pictures of armed Palestinians using UNRWA ambulances to flee undercover (see the damning still shot above).
And Haaretz reports:
Israeli police have uncovered a network that smuggled PA officers, including members of Arafat’s elite Force 17 personal protection unit, into Israel in fake ambulances, and may also have smuggled terrorists into Israel using the same method. Police recently arrested an Arab with Israeli citizenship suspected of posing as an ambulance driver and illegally bringing into Israel dozens of Palestinians disguised as sick patients. The “patients” were hooked up to medical devices inside the ambulances and presented forged documents at Israeli checkpoints. Police recently raided a warehouse near Jerusalem in which commercial vehicles were transformed into ambulances.
For more background on Palestinians’ use of ambulances for terror, see this and this from the Foreign Ministry.
