The United Nations says a UN-sponsored summer camp that will be the site of a kite-flying contest in northwest Gaza has been vandalized.
Christopher Gunness, a spokesman for the UN agency that runs the camp, says the vandals torched a stage, burned a UN flag and damaged a billboard. But he says nobody was hurt. He had no information on who vandalized the facility early Thursday.
- Similar attacks have taken place in the past at UN summer camps in Gaza, where boys and girls mix. Suspicion has fallen on Islamic hard-liners who oppose mixing of the genders.
Gunness says the damage will be repaired in time for Gaza children to try to set a world record at the facility for the largest number of children flying kites later Thursday