UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon visited Israel on Tuesday in an effort to advance a cease-fire between Israel and the terrorist organizations it’s battling in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, while US Secretary of State John Kerry met separately with officials from Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in Cairo. For his part, Ban appeared at a joint press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and unequivocally condemned Hamas’ firing of rockets at Israeli civilians and using Palestinian civilians as human shields. The UN position was clear, he said: “We condemn strongly the rocket attacks, and these must stop immediately.” Furthermore “we condemn the use of civilian sites, schools, hospitals and other civilian facilities for military purposes.” Read More
