UN responsible for civilian deaths in Gaza. Refused to help move civilians out of harm's way.

The UN directly contributed to the death of Palestinian civilians during the Gaza war. Arutz Sheva reports that a UN official admitted Israel sought the UN's help in clearing neighborhoods of civilians in advance of imminent Israeli operations directed at military targets embedded in those civilian neighborhoods - and the UN refused.

Eliminating the gratuitous personal complaints, the bare facts admitted at an August 21, 2014 press conference given by Pernille Ironside, Chief of the UNICEF Gaza Field Office, are as follows:

• "...There have been attempts to instrumentalize the UN in Gaza during this conflict....by facilitating the clearance of certain neighborhoods. And the UN has refused...".
• "...neighborhoods and communities in Gaza were...told to evacuate because of the incoming Israeli military operations. They were informed of that through text messages, phone calls, and leaflets from Israel, yes so and you know, the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, the Beit Hanoun, Huza'a...[P]eople were asked or strongly encouraged to leave rapidly. Sometimes it was hours..."

In short, the UN refused the "orderly civilian evacuation of areas Israel had warned it would soon attack in several hours....Thus the UN, itself, has had a significant and negative role in the number of Gazan civilian deaths that...resulted."