United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes has condemned last week's bombing of the YMCA library, which caused severe damage but no injuries. No one has been arrested although the attack took place approximately 200 meters from a police station.
 
The attack has raised fears of further chaos in the Gaza region. "I hope the people behind it won't get away with it, but it seems it will be like the previous cases" when no one was caught, said Khalil Shahin, of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza. Arab terrorists in Gaza previously have staged several attacks against Christian social and cultural sites and murdered a Christian bookseller in October.