How Should UN Defend Against Israeli Claims?

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00:00And just help me, because when I speak to Israeli officials and we put new figures to them

00:06and we tell them that we're horrified by news of UN workers being killed

00:11and there's been so many cases, you know, we've almost lost track.

00:15But every time we put that to a spokesperson or someone who supports Prime Minister Netanyahu,

00:21he'll say yes, but those individuals wore two hats.

00:24On the one hand, yes, they were doing some UN work, but on the other hand, they were Hamas operatives.

00:29How would you advise me to respond to those kinds of allegation from the Israelis?

00:34It's almost a justification they're giving me there.

00:37Of course it's a justification and a completely dishonest one.

00:41I mean, I would respond, well, it seems to be very odd, Mr. Israeli spokesman,

00:44that basically every single medic in Gaza is a Hamas operative.

00:48Every single teacher in Gaza is a Hamas operative.

00:51Every single UN worker is an operative.

00:53Every single journalist is an operative.

00:55Every child that you're killing is an operative.

00:57It's just totally, totally untrue.

01:00And it's their justification.

01:02They are doing something.

01:03They're trying to make life as unbearable as possible.

01:05And they're doing a very good job at that in the hope that the Palestinians will leave Gaza.

01:10And by killing the teachers, the medics, the UN workers and the journalists,

01:14the witnesses, that's what they're doing.