After a 12-year-old girl was shot in the
head while sitting at her desk in a United Nations school in the Palestinian
territory, a top UN relief official in the region has expressed dismay
at the Israeli military's indiscriminate use of force in civilian areas.
Peter Hansen, Commissioner-General of
the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
(UNRWA), visited the girl and her family yesterday at the intensive care
unit of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City where she is receiving treatment.
UNRWA said the girl was attending an Agency-run school when she was wounded by retaliatory fire from Israeli forces after an Israeli tank was fired upon near the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.