  {"id":185255,"date":"2014-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=185255"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:52:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:52:05","slug":"auto-insert-185255","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-185255\/","title":{"rendered":"Mideast situation\/Rocket attacks from Gaza &#8211; Letter from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Identical letters dated 9 January 2014 from the Permanent Representative of Israel to the Âé¶¹APP addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;Earlier today, the morning calm in southern Israel was shattered by three mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip. This unprovoked attack by Palestinian terrorists was aimed at troops of the Israel Defense Forces on a routine patrol inside Israel.<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;Israel holds Hamas responsible for this attack. Hamas is a dangerous terrorist organization committed to the destruction of Israel. For years, it has held the Palestinian population hostage and used Gaza as a launching pad to target Israeli civilians and soldiers. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;Israel has thus far shown considerable restraint, but it will not allow its citizens to be the victims of ongoing attacks and will continue to take all measures necessary to protect its population. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;The only thing more deafening than the explosions of mortars fired from Gaza is the international community&#8217;s silence. I urge this Council to condemn these attacks, loudly and clearly, before the situation escalates further.<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;I should be grateful if you would have the present letter distributed as a document of the Security Council. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:60px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:60px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;margin-left:60px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">(<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><i>Signed<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">) Ron <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>Prosor<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\nAmbassador<br \/>\nPermanent Representative<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:9pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">___________<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identical letters dated 9 January 2014 from the Permanent Representative of Israel to the Âé¶¹APP addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council&nbsp; &nbsp;Earlier today, the morning calm in southern Israel was shattered by three mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip. 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