Israel said Thursday it would cooperate with a United Nations investigation into Israeli attacks on U.N. facilities during last summer's Gaza war and the use of U.N. sites by Palestinian militants to store weapons.

During the war at least six U.N.-run facilities were hit by Israeli fire, killing at least two dozen people.

Israel has cited militants' use of U.N. facilities to store rockets as a reason for targeting them.

Ban this month named Patrick Cammaert, a retired Dutch general and former force commander of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, to head the investigation.

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