JERUSALEM – Israel’s ambassador to the world physique, Danny Danon, issued a scathing indictment of the United Nations Reduction and Works Company for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), declaring Hamas terrorists are operating the group within the Gaza Strip.
Danon’s remarks got here after final week’s Israeli air strike that hit the UNRWA al-Jaouni faculty in a Gaza refugee camp. Danon questioned, “How lengthy will the U.N. proceed to bury its head within the sand and ignore the truth that Hamas terrorists have taken over UNRWA? Those that had been killed yesterday (Wednesday) within the IDF strike had been 9 terrorists with blood on their arms, 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.”
The varsity, which was not operational, was getting used as a Hamas command and management middle, in line with the Israeli Protection Forces (IDF).
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A protester holds a flag exterior the UNRWA headquarters in the course of the demonstration in Gaza, 2020. (Ahmed Zakot/SOPA Pictures/LightRocket through Getty Pictures)
Danon listed the names of the Hamas terrorists who had been affiliated with UNRWA on his X submit, whereas noting “UNRWA-Gaza is a terrorist group whose members participated within the October 7 bloodbath, and whose members kidnapped and murdered harmless Israeli civilians. It’s time to shut down UNRWA.”
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 individuals on Oct. 7 in southern Israel.
When approached by Fox Information Digital, Juliette Touma, a UNRWA spokesperson, claimed “The Israeli authorities haven’t requested UNRWA formally to supply them with the checklist of employees killed in yesterday’s assault on the UNRWA faculty.” She added, “The names that seem on right this moment’s assertion from the Israeli Military haven’t been flagged to us earlier than by the Israeli authorities in earlier events previous to right this moment.”
She complained, “We at all times discover out about these very critical allegations in the media. After the occasion.” Faculties in Gaza haven’t been in session since shortly after Israel waged struggle on Hamas in response to the Oct. 7 bloodbath in southern Israel.
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A U.N. automobile enters the UNRWA workplaces in Jerusalem on April 2, 2024. (Photograph by Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS)
Fox Information Digital requested the Israel Protection Forces about Touma’s assertion. An IDF spokesman stated “From what I understood, it’s fairly clear in Gaza who belongs to who. I don’t assume this can be a shock in any respect to anybody in UNRWA, simply an try to shift the dialogue and blame.” The IDF spokesman pressured that the UNRWA spokeswoman’s remark “Appears like a diversion from speaking concerning the necessary challenge – terrorists working for the group and utilizing UNRWA as a canopy.”
Hillel Neuer, government director of U.N. Watch, informed Fox Information Digital. “This was a precision strike concentrating on terrorists who embedded a command and management middle inside a compound that had beforehand served as a faculty. The U.N. must be condemning Hamas for utilizing civilian buildings for navy functions, which is a struggle crime underneath the Geneva Conventions. As a substitute, they rushed to sentence Israel.”
Israeli Everlasting Member to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks throughout a session of the Safety Council on the New York Metropolis headquarters. (Israel United Nations mission)
Neuer, who has testified to Congress concerning the controversial company, claimed, “UNRWA is deeply complicit with the Hamas terrorist group. Their employees routinely have a good time terrorist assaults towards Israelis and Jews, as we’ve recognized in quite a few of our stories, itemizing some 200 names. Subsequent, we recognized heads of UNRWA teachers unions, who’re senior officers inside Hamas. Suhail al-Hindi, who for a few years headed the UNRWA academics union in Gaza, is sitting on the Hamas political bureau with Yahya Sinwar. Likewise, the top of the UNRWA academics’ union in Lebanon, Fathi al-Sharif, is a senior Hamas terrorist, documented on our web site, unwatch.org.”
He known as on international governments to cease funding UNRWA. “It’s excessive time for all western states who’re giving greater than a billion {dollars} to UNRWA to cease funding a terror-infested company. The Swiss parliament rightly known as to cease funding it, and to finish UNRWA altogether. We urge all different democracies, the U.S., UK, France, Germany, and Japan, to do the identical.”
Israeli Protection Forces (IDF) armored items launch an assault on the Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza on Could 15, 2024. (Photograph by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu through Getty Pictures)
UNRWA’s Touma decried the Swiss determination. “Switzerland’s decrease parliament votes to droop funding to UNRWA. It’s past comprehension that this occurs in circumstances the place the Company is on the forefront of lifesaving humanitarian work in Gaza. Switzerland has been identified for championing humanitarian support and taking part in a number one function in selling worldwide humanitarian regulation.”
Touma added, “Parliamentarians voting to section out a U.N. Common Meeting mandated Company with out providing a political different to Palestinians underneath occupation are once more on the mistaken facet of historical past.”
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 support to the controversy-hit company upon assuming workplace after former President Donald Trump’s determination to defund the controversial group in 2018.
