UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli military said on Monday it has detained a convoy of United Nations vehicles in the northern Gaza Strip because it has intelligence indicating that a number of “Palestinian suspects” are in the convoy and it wants to question them.
“We emphasize that this is not a convoy carrying polio vaccines, but a convoy whose purpose is to exchange U.N.
personnel. The incident is not yet over,” an Israeli military spokesperson said.
U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said it was aware “of an ongoing incident involving U.N. personnel and vehicles” and was working to establish the facts.
He said the top U.N priority “is the safety and security of our colleagues.”
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols, Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi; editing by Kanishka Singh)
