Milan, 24 Mar. (LaPresse) – The United Nations has announced that it will ‘reduce its presence’ in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli tank attack last week hit one of its buildings, killing one staff member and injuring five others. The spokesman for the Secretary General of the United Nations, Stéphane Dujarric, stated that the United Nations ‘has made the difficult decision to reduce the organisation's footprint in Gaza, even as humanitarian needs are growing’, he specified, adding that the UN ‘is not leaving Gaza’, but without providing details on the impact of the decision. Israel has denied being responsible for the 19th March attack on the United Nations guest quarters in the centre of Gaza, but in a note Dujarric emphasised that ‘based on the information currently available’, the attacks on the site ‘were caused by an Israeli tank’.
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