U.N. Secretary Common Antonio Guterres defended the UNRWA’s operations in Gaza on Sunday, saying solely “just a few parts” of the group had been affiliated with Hamas.
Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon claimed final week that the UNRWA, or United Nations Reduction and Works Company, is totally taken over by Hamas. Guterres has admitted that Hamas “infiltrated” the group, however mentioned throughout a Sunday look on CNN that there is no such thing as a proof behind Israel’s claims.
“The very fact is there was an infiltration with just a few parts that certainly participated within the seventh of October,” Guterres mentioned, condemning the motion.
“Loads of issues have been invented that don’t correspond in any respect to the reality,” he continued. “After all there are tunnels beneath the premises of UNRWA, as there are tunnels all over the place in Gaza. However there has by no means been any dedication of UNRWA normally to supply any sort of help to Hamas.”
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In the meantime, Israel has doubled down on its accusations relating to UNRWA. Danon accused Guterres and the U.N. of “burying its head within the sand” on the problem. Danon himself was defending an Israeli airstrike that hit the UNRWA al-Jaouni faculty in a Gaza refugee camp final week.
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“Those that had been killed within the IDF strike had been 9 terrorists with blood on their palms, and a few of them participated within the barbaric bloodbath on October 7. In case there are nonetheless any doubts, there are the names of the Hamas terrorists who had been on the faculty compound disguised as ‘native UNRWA workers,'” he Danon mentioned.
The varsity, which was not operational, was getting used as a Hamas command and management heart, in response to the Israeli Protection Forces (IDF).
Simply final month, Fox Information Digital reported that UNRWA was forced to fire nine employees due to their seemingly involvement in Hamas’s slaughter of practically 1,200 folks on Oct. 7 in southern Israel.
The U.S. suspended funding to UNRWA due to the function a few of its workers performed within the Oct. 7 bloodbath. President Biden had initially restarted help to the controversy-hit company upon assuming workplace after former President Trump’s determination to defund the group in 2018.
Fox Information’ Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report