UN official deplores Israeli disproportionate use of force in Gaza
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/26/2006

A top United Nations aid official deplored Israeli military offensive against Gaza Strip as " disproportionate use of force."

A UN Information Center (UNIC) quoted Jan Egeland, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, as saying during a visit to Gaza as part of his continuing humanitarian mission to the region, from where he will travel to northern part of Palestinian the occupied territories (Israel) to see the destruction caused by Hizbullah rockets.

"This was clearly a disproportionate use of force," he said during a visit that included a health clinic damaged by Israeli incursions and also a stop at the power station that was destroyed by an air strike on June 28, leaving the Gaza Strip without 45 percent of its prior electricity supply.

A UN spokeswoman in New York said Egeland had also traveled to Gaza City where he met with the Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), as well as with community members, UN and other agencies.

He also met with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, the spokesman added.

UN said that more than 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians have been killed in the last month alone in Gaza and Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for "an immediate cessation" of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence of the occupying regime of Israel against Palestinian children, women and men.

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