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UNRWA Staffers Suspected of Playing Role in Oct 7 Terror Attack
Posted on 1/27/24 at 11:15 am
Posted on 1/27/24 at 11:15 am
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GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday it had opened an investigation into several employees suspected of involvement in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas and that it had severed ties with those staff members.
"The Israeli authorities have provided UNRWA with information about the alleged involvement of several UNRWA employees in the horrific attacks on Israel on October 7," said Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General.
"To protect the agency's ability to deliver humanitarian assistance, I have taken the decision to immediately terminate the contracts of these staff members and launch an investigation in order to establish the truth without delay."
Lazzarini did not disclose the number of employees allegedly involved in the attacks, nor the nature of their alleged involvement. He said, however, that "any UNRWA employee who was involved in acts of terror" would be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution.
Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy accused UNRWA of announcing the news while the world's attention was focused on the World Court ordering Israel to prevent acts of genocide against Palestinians and do more to help civilians in Gaza.
"Any other day, this would have been a major headline: Israel submits evidence of UN employees' complicity with Hamas," Levy wrote on X.
UNRWA, whose biggest donors in 2022 included the United States, Germany and the European Union, has repeatedly said its capacity to render humanitarian assistance to people in Gaza is on the verge of collapse.
The U.S. State Department said it was extremely troubled by the allegations, which it said pertained to 12 UNRWA employees. It said it would provide no additional funding to the agency until the allegations were addressed.
"The Department of State has temporarily paused additional funding for UNRWA while we review these allegations and the steps the United Nations is taking to address them," spokesperson Matthew Miller said.
MSN
ETA: Some details of the actions by UNRWA employees below:
This post was edited on 1/29/24 at 12:35 pm
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Posted on 1/27/24 at 3:40 pm to blueridgeTiger
Posted on 1/27/24 at 4:14 pm to blueridgeTiger
If they aren’t dead already they soon will be.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 4:17 pm to blueridgeTiger
I’d honestly be shocked if anyone said they were shocked by this.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 4:20 pm to DatNolaClap
It was very interesting to see the funding under Obama, then Trump, then Biden.
Presidents were getting the intel and now you know one reason why Trump was cutting off funding but everyone said he was bad.
Amazing Biden went back to it and the destination of the Houthis. There's no doubt in my mind BO is in touch regularly.
Presidents were getting the intel and now you know one reason why Trump was cutting off funding but everyone said he was bad.
Amazing Biden went back to it and the destination of the Houthis. There's no doubt in my mind BO is in touch regularly.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 5:06 pm to blueridgeTiger
Instead of firing them how about trying them for murder?
Withdraw from the UN.
Withdraw from the UN.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 5:08 pm to blueridgeTiger
You'd think this would be enough to expel the UN and cut off all of its funding.
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:38 pm to blueridgeTiger
Further information about the role of these people in the October 7 terror attack:
MSN
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TEL AVIV—At least 12 employees of the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency had connections to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and around 10% of all of its Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups, according to intelligence reports reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Six United Nations Relief and Works Agency workers were part of the wave of Palestinian militants who killed 1,200 people in the deadliest assault on Jews since the Holocaust, according to the intelligence dossier. Two helped kidnap Israelis. Two others were tracked to sites where scores of Israeli civilians were shot and killed. Others coordinated logistics for the assault, including procuring weapons.
Of the 12 Unrwa employees with links to the attacks, seven were primary or secondary school teachers, including two math teachers, two Arabic language teachers and one primary school teacher.
The information in the intelligence reports—based on what an official described as very sensitive signals intelligence as well as cellphone tracking data, interrogations of captured Hamas fighters and documents recovered from dead militants, among other things—were part of a briefing given by Israel to U.S. officials that led Washington and others to suspend aid to Unrwa.
“Unrwa’s problem is not just ‘a few bad apples’ involved in the October 7 massacre,” said a senior Israeli government official. “The institution as a whole is a haven for Hamas’ radical ideology.”
An Unrwa spokesperson on Monday declined to comment, saying an internal U.N. investigation into the agency was under way.
Two officials familiar with the intelligence said the Unrwa employees considered to have ties with militant groups were deemed to be “operatives,” indicating they took active part in the organization’s military or political framework. The report said 23% of Unrwa’s male employees had ties to Hamas, a higher percentage than the average of 15% for adult males in Gaza, indicating a higher politicization of the agency than the population at large.
MSN
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:53 pm to POTUS2024
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You'd think this would be enough to expel the UN
I think they fall in the category of “keep your friends close and your enemies closer”.
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