BREAKING: Hostages were held in UNRWA compounds. Three Israeli women held hostage by Hamas in Gaza for 471 days reported they were held captive part of the time in UN shelters. How we do know it was UNRWA? Because UNRWA told us. They boasted about it: “UNRWA runs all UN shelters” https://t.co/w93NdwYXkX pic.twitter.com/3DMLtftITZ
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 22, 2025
UN Watch exposed the fact that former UNRWA chief Pierre Krahenbuhl told Hamas and Islamic Jihad: “We are united and no one can separate us.” Another UN Watch investigation showed UNRWA’s current chief Philippe Lazzarini “met with terror leaders after Oct. 7.” Lazzarini “and his colleagues knowingly allow Hamas and other terrorist groups to infiltrate UNRWA’s employee base, indoctrinate impressionable Palestinian children to pursue a path of terrorism against Israelis and Jews and install military infrastructure underneath or next to UNRWA facilities.”
The UN Watch investigation also exposed “how Palestinian terror organizations, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, systematically influence UNRWA.”
UNRWA has been repeatedly shown to be deeply interconnected with Hamas and other jihad terror groups.
The discovery that Israeli hostages were held captive in UN compounds, along with other evidence from UN Watch and Israel’s investigations, should lead Western nations to withdraw all support from the antisemitic UN and UNWRA.
The International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice (an organ of the antisemitic UN) will continue to turn a blind eye to UNRWA while continuing to persecute the State of Israel. These organizations also need to be investigated and marginalized.
“Surprise! Released female hostages were being held captive in U.N. compounds,” by David Brummer, World Net Daily, January 22, 2025:
JERUSALEM – News emerged on Wednesday of the three female former Israeli hostages being held for at least part of the time during their 471 days in Gaza captivity in United Nations shelters, as if the timing could not have more perfectly underscored U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order to defund UNRWA.
BREAKING: Former hostages Romi, Emily, and Doron were held in United Nations shelters in Gaza, which were meant for civilians.
The UN refuses to condemn Hamas for hiding hostages in civilian spaces.@newsisrael13 @maya_aidan https://t.co/qJyjY1Y8ao pic.twitter.com/Ejt7ct2Ol7
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) January 22, 2025
The accusation once again raises the specter of the United Nations being indivisible from the terrorist groups dominating the Gaza Strip, and is another nail in the coffin of legitimacy, which has consistently worn away at global bodies and humanitarian NGOs, which have parroted Hamas talking points and statistics.
The official X channel of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported : “Former hostages Romi, Emily, and Doron were held in United Nations shelters in Gaza, which were meant for civilians. The UN refuses to condemn Hamas for hiding hostages in civilian spaces.”
In its message, the Israeli Foreign Ministry links to a report broadcast yesterday by the Israeli television Channel 13T, which states the following: “Two days after being released from Hamas captivity, after 471 days in captivity, Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbracher begin to recount today (Tuesday) what they experienced, the conditions of their captivity, as well as the places where they were held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas terrorists since they were kidnapped on Oct 7.”….
somehistory says
The headline was on the msn feed. No surprise to those of us who have been keeping up and who understand the intimate relationship between the goons/ghouls in the U.N. and the ghouls of hamas and other terrorists.
RightStuff says
The United States needs to pull completely out of the United Nations. Then, order the United Nations out of the United States. Why do we put up with them???
Raymond Bullock says
Save a few bucks and build it into a nice hotel. Most of all, USA independence from the snake oil crowd.
Magooey says
Since the hostages were kept on civilian UN property, what excuse does the International Committee of the Red Cross have for never visiting any of the hostages? Maybe another part of the international community should be closed down and replaced by new unbiased, non-racist organizations.
abu taleb says
Bring the UN to justice for being a complicit of a crime. To embarrass the ICC, take the case to the ICC accusing UN of helping the crime by providing facility for kidnap and rape..
The UN is a complete joke and a total failure. Should be disbanded a long time ago.
James Lincoln says
Good idea, abu taleb.
gravenimage says
Released female Israeli hostages were held captive in UN compounds
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Shocking. Even I didn’t think that the UN was this bad–I knew that some UNRWA members were also members of Hamas–appalling enough–but didn’t know that UN compounds were actually being used to hold hostages. Sickening.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That is one thing that explains why the remaining hostages have not been rescued. If Hamas hid them in UN buildings, which Israel treated as sacrosanct, they were never gonna be able to rescue them
Israel needs to storm any UN buildings in Gaza, Judea and Samaria and clear them of any hostages. Then shut down all UN offices in those 3 areas. Ideally, Israel should withdraw from the UN, but if they don’t, only allow them a small office in Tel Aviv
skeptiker says
Die UNO hat schon lange eine disfunktionale Schlagseite die nur durch einem konsequenten Boykott ausgehungert werden kann. Vielleicht wäre eine Neugründung mit ausschließlich demokratischen Staaten eine Option, die mit ausreichend Geld und Macht ausgestattet ein wirkmächtiges Schwergewicht in der Welt sein könnte.Voraussetzung wäre, dass der Westen wieder geschlossen und selbstbewusst seine freiheitlich, demokratischen und den Menschenrechten verpflichtende Werte verteidigt und hervorhebt. Die Überlegenheit einer modernen, aufgeklärten Zivilisation muss wieder eine erstrebenswerte und sinnstiftende Basis einer Weltorganisation sein.
dumbledoresarmy says
I would not be the least bit surprised if it were discovered that the abominable Francesca Albanese – as well as the head honchos of UNRWA in Gaza, including those who are not (or who appear to be) non-Muslims, knew exactly which UNRWA buildings held which Israeli hostages at what times. And – being chockful of oldfashioned vicious Jew-hatred – chose NOT to communicate this information to the Israelis.
dumbledoresarmy says
Correction to my post above. I should have written: “head honchos of UNRWA in Gaza, including those who are not (or who appear not to be) Muslims)..”. The ‘appear not to be’ is because it is entirely possible that some of those UNRWA functionaries who are of European origin and from non-Muslim backgrounds, may well be ‘closet converts’ to Islam, drawn to Islam in the same way and for the same reasons as other inclined-to-evil westerners have been.
Cynthia says
Too late! If Israel storms every building, the Gazans execute the hostages. I don’t differentiate between the population and Hamas because they have the same ideology. Israelis agreed to this torturous ceasefire deal as the only way to get their few remaining live citizens out of Hell.
I just don’t understand that Israel is having “all hell to pay” instead of Hamas. I don’t understand how the PA in charge of Gaza will be any better. They also work towards the destruction of Israel.
John Wiant says
I went to a meeting at a fancy architect’s firm in downtown D.C. once and they had two large jars of buttons. One jar had blue buttons and the one had red buttons. The different words on them were; “I am a U.S. Citizen” and the other ” I am not a U.S. Citizen.”
I laughed as a I put my button on, and said, “I feel bad for the people who have to put that other button on!” The reception turned bright pink and loudly ‘whispered’ ….”SIR, most people who put that button on are PROUD to NOT be an American Citizen!” I smiled and said, “Oh sorry, I don’t KNOW anyone like that.”