The Israel Defense Forces says it acted “following intelligence that a number of Palestinian suspects were present in the convoy.”
The Israeli military detained a convoy of United Nations vehicles for several hours in northern Gaza on Monday. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement they were acting “following intelligence that a number of Palestinian suspects were present in the convoy” and delayed it to question them. The IDF said the convoy was not involved in the transport of polio vaccines but was being used instead to exchange UN personnel.
Philippe Lazzarini, chief of the UNWRA – the UN’s main agency for Palestinian humanitarian relief – said the convoy was stopped at gunpoint after the Wadi Gaza checkpoint and held for more than eight hours despite “prior detailed coordination.” During that time, bulldozers caused heavy damage to the UN armored vehicles, he said.
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