UNRWA Gaza Employees Hide Map Showing Palestine in Place of Israel

"A UN run school in Gaza tried to hide a giant wall map during UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's visit in the town of Tel al-Hawa in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The UN school hid the map because it marked all of the territory of Israel as Palestine.

Ban Ki-moon was visiting UN facilities in the strip, including the school, which is run by the UNRWA - a UN organization which specifically deals with the Palestinians.

The school hung the large map which said "historical Palestine" without mentioning Israel. Due to the fact that it was a UN school, someone realized that a picture of the UN secretary general standing underneath the map might cause a diplomatic incident between the UN and the Palestinians. Therefore, it was decided to cover the map with a white sheet...

The UNRWA spokesperson in Gaza, Adnan abu Hasna, said claimed that 'there was no covered up map during Ban's press conference in Gaza.'"