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It’s time to deal with an uncomfortable reality. UNRWA-Gaza has monumentally failed the individuals of Gaza. It has failed in its unique mandate to teach Gazans and assist, not hinder, peace. And, as a UN company, it has turn into overrun by terrorism.
Slightly than specializing in training, well being care and social companies, UNRWA-Gaza has been unmasked, providing reduction – and canopy – to Hamas, an internationally acknowledged terrorist group, whereas additionally working hand-in-hand with their diplomatic proxy, the Palestinian Authority. Collectively, they perpetuate a virulent hatred of Jews, glorify violence and extend battle.
UNRWA was established in 1949, a yr after the institution of the State of Israel. Whereas refugees world wide have relied on non permanent assist from the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Palestinians have had an company of their very own. However this distinctive company was created to not resolve an issue, however to protect one. UNRWA has entrenched Palestinians’ standing as everlasting refugees and has ensured that generations stay locked in hatred and rejectionism.
ISRAEL’S UN AMBASSADOR SLAMS WORLD BODY, SAYS UNRWA TAKEN OVER BY HAMAS TERRORISTS IN GAZA
Everlasting Consultant of Israel to the United Nations, Danny Danon speaks throughout a UN Safety Council assembly on Might 15, 2018, at UN Headquarters in New York. – The US ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday instructed an emergency Safety Council assembly on the violence in Gaza, that ally Israel had acted with restraint within the face of provocation from Hamas. “No nation on this chamber would act with extra restraint than Israel has,” Nikki Haley instructed the Safety Council. “In actual fact the data of a number of nations right here at this time recommend they might be a lot much less restrained,” she mentioned. (Photograph by HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP) (Photograph credit score ought to learn HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP by way of Getty Pictures) (Photograph credit score ought to learn HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Palestinian hate in the direction of Israelis and Jews didn’t happen in a vacuum. The systematic indoctrination of hatred begins in the classroom. Right here’s a passage from a fifth-grade textbook taught at colleges funded and supported by the U.N. and its member states: “Dalal Mughrabi, a reputation etched in glory, led with unmatched bravery. Her operation introduced satisfaction to the Palestinian trigger, reminding us that the blood of martyrs paves the way in which to liberation. In her footsteps, we educate our kids to aspire to heroism and martyrdom, as these are the marks of a nation’s energy.”
WFP delivers hundreds of meals packages, sacks of flour and water to the Beit Hanoun in coordination with COGAT. (IDF)
The ‘operation’ cited right here was no noble trigger – and Mughrabi was no hero. She was a Palestinian terrorist with harmless blood on her fingers, having plotted the Coastal Highway Bloodbath in Tel Aviv in 1978 that left 38 harmless Israeli civilians useless, together with 13 kids.
UNRWA has failed to show peace. It has additionally did not advance peace. Its colleges and amenities have been transformed into weapon depots and launching pads for rocket assaults on Israeli civilian facilities.
Photographs launched by the Israeli Protection Pressure present three people that the Israeli navy claims are Hamas terrorists contained in the UNRWA compound in Rafah. (IDF)
Prior to now yr, Israel has uncovered lots of of UNRWA workers moonlighting as Hamas operatives, and vice versa. However the U.N. stays silent on this revolving door of terror.
Worse, UNRWA-Gaza has blood on its fingers, and the world has turned a blind eye as a result of that blood is Jewish. Final month, I had the consideration and privilege to accompany Ayelet Samerano within the U.N. and stood by her as she spoke about her pricey son, Yonatan.
On October seventh, the darkest day in Israel’s historical past, Yonatan was kidnapped from southern Israel to Gaza by an UNRWA employee who was cashing checks signed and sealed by the United Nations and the Commissioner-Basic of UNRWA.
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The IDF and ISA eradicated Hamas terrorist, Nukhba commander, Mohammad Abu Itiwi. He was concerned within the homicide and abduction of Israeli civilians on October seventh. Itiwi labored for UNRWA in line with the Israelis. (IDF Spokesman’s Unit)
To this point, there was no apology, no clarification, no condemnation by the U.N. as to why its workers are taking part in brutal terrorism relatively than fulfilling their mandate of offering humanitarian assist to Gazans.
Why does the United Nations and its members proceed to help such egregious acts of terrorism? The place is the outrage at UNRWA and its employees violating the U.N.’s foundational peacekeeping ideas?
Regardless of what some worldwide our bodies declare, UNRWA is neither the biggest – nor most important – humanitarian company working in Gaza. Gazans don’t want UNRWA to thrive. Different businesses, not infiltrated by Hamas and genuinely centered on bettering the lives of Gazans, have achieved extra in enhancing situations in Gaza. Prior to now three months, the World Meals Program has been answerable for 50% of humanitarian assist in Gaza, whereas UNRWA accounted for lower than 13%.
Now’s the time for a shift. It’s time for the U.N. to dissolve UNRWA and cease being collaborators in battle to start out being companions in peace.
If the worldwide neighborhood really cared concerning the individuals of Gaza, it could help strikes to put in different businesses to interchange UNRWA’s activities in Gaza.
Ambassador Danny Danon is Israel’s Everlasting Consultant to the United Nations.
