UNRWA employed Hamas terrorists

January 29, 2024 by hotminnie

Ten UNRWA employees were identified as Hamas members, and another is believed to be affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad

The United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA), employed at least 10 Hamas members, among whom were a school counselor who worked with his son to kidnap an Israeli woman and a social worker who distributed ammunition, US intelligence suggests, according to a report in the otherwise anti-Israel New York Times.
A dossier has circulated among Western officials, the report said. The dossier charges that at least 12 employees of UNRWA, the UN agency that oversees a number of social services, including a majority of schools, and about 3,000 of whose 13,000 employees are still working in the Gaza Strip, actively participated in Hamas’s war with Israel. Ten of them were described as active Hamas members, and another is believed to be affiliated with Islamic Jihad, another terrorist group active in Gaza, according to the report.

The intelligence was reportedly gathered in part through monitoring of the employees’ cell phones by Israeli intelligence services: some discussed their involvement in the attack, according to the dossier, while three others received text messages directing them to a particular location while the attack was ongoing, and one was told to bring rocket-propelled grenades storied in his home. Another employee distributed ammunition.
In response to the intelligence, the United States has suspended aid to the agency, as have Canada, Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Finland. The US returned to being one of the organization’s largest funders in 2021 when US President Joe Biden restored $200m in funding that the Donald Trump administration had suspended in 2018.
Some of the UN employees were found out to have participated in the deadly October 7 attack, during which thousands of terrorists from Gaza invaded Israel, killing more than 1,200 Israelis, a vast majority of whom were civilians, committing acts of rape and sexual violence against Israeli women, and kidnapping an estimated 260 people to hold hostage in Gaza.
In November, one released hostage reported having been held in captivity by a UNRWA teacher, according to Israeli media. At the time, the UN agency dismissed the reports as “unsubstantiated claims.”
Following the revelation of this intelligence, the agency says that it has fired nine of the 12 employees and that two of the others are dead. António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, said that he was “horrified by these accusations,” but that he “strongly appeals to the governments that have suspended their contributions to, at least, guarantee the continuity of UNRWA’s operations.”
The agency which employs thousands of known Hamas members, is responsible for handling much of the humanitarian aid that has flowed into the Gaza Strip since the Hamas attack on October 7 initiated the current war with Israel. A significant number of these Hamas terrorists have been eliminated already, some 26.000 according to the Hamas-governed health ministry.