Experts on the United Nations operations in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel told Congress on Tuesday that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has for years promoted genocidal hatred against Jews, promoted violent jihadist ideology and committed terrorist attacks. He said that he has tolerated people who sympathize with terrorism and terrorism. employee.
UNRWA is a specialized agency of the world organization that deals with the issue of Palestine. It controls the education system in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas, and employs tens of thousands of people. Despite years of evidence that UNRWA uses hateful textbooks to indoctrinate Palestinian children with jihadist terrorism and collaborates with Hamas, UNRWA survives on funding from the United States and Europe. are doing.
Many of the donors, including the left-leaning Joe Biden administration, which resumed funding after his predecessor, Donald Trump, suspended it, have been rounded up by the Israeli government, which says UNRWA staff took part in the unprecedented violence. It suspended that funding this weekend after the evidence was revealed. Terrorist attack carried out by members of Hamas on October 7th. The agency’s head, Philippe Lazzarini, appeared to accept Israel’s evidence as valid, announcing that he had “made the decision to immediately terminate” those involved in the October 7 attack.
On Tuesday, the Israeli government Designated It said it had identified 10 members of Hamas, two members of the Sunni terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and one “independent” UNRWA official who took part in the October 7 atrocity.
The October 7 terrorist atrocity consisted of an invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists from Gaza, who besieged residential communities and massacred entire families in door-to-door attacks. Israeli authorities have compiled evidence of widespread use of gang rape, torture, mutilation, desecration of corpses, and particularly shocking abuse and killing of children, the elderly, and the elderly. Much of the footage was filmed by the terrorists themselves and posted online. handicapped.
A ray of hope in Kibbutz Nir Oz, site of October 7th Hamas massacre
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During Tuesday’s hearing before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, Hillel Neuer, executive director of the NGO United Nations Watch, said that UNRWA officials are reporting on the woes of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He presented evidence that he glorified violent violence. Day. On January 10, UN Watch released a report revealing the content of Telegram, a social media group that brings together approximately 3,000 UNRWA members, including messages and photos celebrating the October 7 Hamas massacre. , full of videos.
“This was created by Hani Jowda, who defends the rights of UNRWA employees,” Neuer told parliament. “On his own blog, Mr. Judas quotes anti-Semitic passages that describe Jews as having a superiority complex that ‘fills the being of every Jewish individual’, being ‘cunning’ and ‘smart in evil’. are doing.”
Israa Abdul Kareem Mezher, another administrator of the Telegram group, wrote on October 7, “May Allah keep their feet steady and guide them to their purpose.” “Pray for the Mujahideen.” “Allah will protect them and bring them back safely.” Many others shared emojis supporting the genocide and prayers for peace. mujhadeenan Arabic term referring to a jihadist.
“Our new report identifies more than 25 other UNRWA teachers whose chat groups glorified jihadist terrorism and the murder of Jews,” Neuer noted. The agency’s employees “regularly call for the murder of Jews, glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis, and produce materials that incite anti-Semitism,” he said. did.
Marcus Sheff, CEO of the Institute IMPACT-se, shares evidence the organization has compiled about UNRWA teachers indoctrinating children with violent anti-Semitic material in Gaza schools did.
“Today’s Palestinian textbooks are creating tomorrow’s terrorists,” Shehu told parliament, citing several examples.
For example, the 12th grade textbook warns students about the “danger” of “the People of the Book, especially the Jews,” who as a group are described as traitorous, dangerous, hostile, and violent. A teacher’s guide for 10th grade geography and history instructs teachers to demote students who cannot connect the perpetration of the genocide with Jewish religious ideas.
A fourth-grade math problem asked students to add up the number of martyrs from the First and Second Intifadas, and a seventh-grade physics class asked students to calculate the speed needed to throw a stone at an Israeli soldier. ing.
Shehu pointed out that UNRWA “educates the majority of schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip, operating 183 Gaza schools and educating more than 286,000 students.” Therefore, “there is a static possibility that the majority of the estimated 3,000 terrorists committed acts of murder and rape.” graduated from. ”
Richard Goldberg, senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, stressed that UNRWA would not be able to continue its operations without significant funding from the United States.
“This is a horror movie co-produced by American taxpayers over several decades,” he told Congress.
Mr. Goldberg argued that UNRWA is “not a refugee agency” because the people it serves are not formal refugees, and that other parts of the UN that do not have a direct connection to terrorism are better served by UNRWA. It claimed that it was well-suited to provide humanitarian aid in Gaza. UNRWA also pointed out that by providing basic government services such as education and humanitarian aid, Gaza’s elected governing body, Hamas, is allowing funds to be channeled into terrorism.
“From 1950 to 2018, U.S. taxpayers contributed more than $6 billion to UNRWA. President Biden is contributing $1 billion in 2021 alone,” Goldberg said. “According to the Associated Press, from 2014 to 2020, UN agencies spent nearly $4.5 billion in Gaza, including $600 million in 2020 alone.”
“More than 80 percent of that funding was provided through UNRWA,” he claimed. “Gaza has approximately 30 percent of UNRWA’s client population, the US alone has provided $1 billion to UNRWA since 2021, and we have added an additional $300 million to Hamas’ subsidy budget over the past three years. “I did,” he claimed.
Four experts speaking in the House of Commons suggested at least increased oversight of UNRWA, if not a complete defunding. The fourth guest, Professor Mara Rudman, discouraged terminating UNRWA altogether, saying there was “currently no alternative” to feeding Gaza’s extremely poor residents.
“Some of Israel’s 9 million people in the south have long been treated as disposable by Hamas’s de facto rulers, with no ability to move or support themselves and their families. “There are two million people suffering from hunger and an increasingly desperate population. Israel is threatening Israel’s security and stability,” Rudman argued.
Rudman called on the Biden administration to engage in “continuous oversight” to ensure reforms at the agency.
