United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday he was setting up an investigation into attacks on United Nations facilities during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, as well as into the use of UN sites to store weapons, according to Reuters.

Speaking at a monthly meeting of the UN Security Council on the Middle East, Ban recounted his visit to a United Nations school in Jabalia, where civilians had sought protection during the war.

“I look forward to a thorough investigation by the Israeli Defense Forces of this and other incidents in which UN facilities sustained hits and many innocent people were killed,” he was quoted as having said.

“I am planning to move forward with an independent board of inquiry to look into the most serious of those cases, as well as instances in which weaponry was found on UN premises,” he added.

Ban’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric later suggested Ban planned to move quickly on setting up the investigation.

“A board of inquiry is sort of normal procedure when there is damage to U.N. property or UN premises,” he told reporters, according to Reuters.

The secretary-general did not offer details about the board of inquiry. Dujarric said specifics would be included later in an official announcement of the inquiry.

No fewer than three United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools were found, during the course of Israel’s 50-day Operation Protective Edge, to be serving for storage of rockets for the terrorist organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad. 

After the first finding of rockets at an UNRWA school, it was reported that rather than destroying the rockets, UNRWA workers called Hamas to come remove them to use in their terror war on Israeli civilians.

In another incident, three IDF soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in a booby-trapped UN clinic that was situated on top of terror tunnel entrances, showing the complicity of the UN in Gaza-based terror against Israel.

During the course of the Israeli operation, it was Israel that was criticized, both by the UN and the U.S., for attacking UNRWA facilities. Washington called one strike on terrorists operating adjacent to a UN school “disgraceful.” 

The IDF proved that terrorists in several cases fired rockets from the schools, prompting the response.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been urged by several Congressmen to conduct an independent investigation to uncover the extent to which UNRWA facilities are being misused in Gaza.