Israel said it would not apologize to the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. Peter Hansen, head of UNRWA, had asked for an apology after Israel mistakenly claimed that a stretcher thrown into one of UNRWA’s ambulances earlier this fall was a Kassam rocket.
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