UNRWA Funding Paused After Employees of Hamas UN Agency Carrying Out Oct 7 Attacks: “I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll”
Earlier this month, UN Watch released a report showing the enthusiasm among UNRWA teachers for the Oct 7 atrocities.
A Telegram group of 3,000 UNRWA teachers in Gaza is replete with posts celebrating the Hamas massacre of October 7th minutes after it began, praising the murderers and rapists as “heroes,” glorifying the “education” the terrorists received, gleefully sharing photos of dead or captured Israelis and urging the execution of hostages.
The Telegram chat group is meant to support UNRWA teachers, and contains dozens of files with UNRWA staff names, ID numbers, schedules and curriculum materials.
In addition, UNRWA teachers regularly share videos, photos and messages inciting to Jihadi terrorism, and openly celebrating the Hamas massacre and rape of civilians.
Now, the Biden administration and a number of other countries are pausing UNRWA funding after employees of the UN agency were tied to the Oct 7 attacks.
The United States and a number of other countries have suspended funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency over accusations that a number of its employees took part in Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 massacre.
United Nations Secretary Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday that out of the 12 UNRWA employees implicated, nine had been terminated, one was dead and the identities of the other two were being clarified.
UNRWA fired the 12 employees after Israel provided intelligence regarding their complicity.
In the wake of the accusations and dismissals, the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, Italy, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Scotland suspended their funding to the U.N. agency.
UNRWA has in the past made little secret of the fact that it employs Hamas members and has refused to fire them.
Back in 2014, I wrote a little article titled simply, “Defund UNRWA”.
The UNRWA’s Gaza staff has its own union. In the 2012 election, a pro-Hamas bloc won the support of most of the union with 25 out of 27 seats on a union board.
“I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll,” a former UNRWA Commissioner General said, “and I don’t see that as a crime.”
“Hamas as a political organization does not mean that every member is a militant, and we do not do political vetting and exclude people from one persuasion as against another,” he added.
When there was talk of reforming the UNRWA by removing Hamas members from its ranks, the editor of a Hamas paper wrote that, “Laying off the agency employees because of their political affiliation means laying off all the employees of the aid agency, because…they are all members of the ‘resistance,’ in its various forms.”
“They are all members of the ‘resistance,’ in its various forms.”
Hamas and UNRWA leadership have occasionally clashed, but the bottom line is that it’s impossible for UNRWA to operate without ceding control to Hamas, without employing Hamas members and without allowing them to control day-to-day operations.
There are no surprises here. Only a deliberate blindness to what was going on.
somehistory says
More and more of the evil people are unafraid of the consequences of being evil and doing evil deeds. They see that others go unpunished, and that is encouragement for them to do as they please.
One only has to look at many of the world’s *leaders* and see how they get away with so many corrupt and evil deeds, doing them in plain sight and lying about them.
On the news just this morning, a “councilmember” in NYC, riding around in his car with his family, pulled over by an officer for having tinted windows beyond what the law allows.
He right away identified himself as a ‘council member’ and the officer asked if he was “working’…a.k.a. doing his job as councilman, to which he answered yes (with his family in the car; sure).
The officer didn’t cite him for the illegal window tint; just telling him to have a good night.
the lying salaam gave a different …and incorrect….account of the encounter; but due to body cam, he was found out.
Does he lose anything due to his unlawful and lying actions? Probably not. So far, no.
mike says
The point is the left Democrats and the world following the WEF rules are above the laws
will the day come when the public has had enough
we will have nothing left to lose
this is what Biden is banking on
Jeffrey Fixler says
The pauses in funding are just that, temporary. The donor nations are just trying to preempt the intense criticism coming down the pike. A little more Pali cry bullying , a little more Pallywood production scenes of “starving” Palis . A few reports of 1.5 billion Pali babies killed – and counting, and you can be sure that UNRWA money will be restored in no time at all. Not to worry, Hanniyah and Maashal and the other billionaires and millionaires of Hamas will continue their life of luxury – private jets, 5 star hotels, feted in the Ummah- just as before.
bagsgroove says
To hell with Islam and their sympathizers. But it is certain that Satan would not accept them .