United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is once again being slapped with
allegations of terrorism, with new reports pointing to staffers being
involved in holding Israelis hostage. This isn’t the first time the
agency has been accused of such allegations. The Free Beacon had a story
last week regarding a UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli hostage in an attic for 50 days:
A teacher with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reportedly held an
Israeli hostage taken captive by Hamas on Oct. 7 in an attic.
The
teacher, a father of 10 children, kept the hostage for almost 50 days,
barely provided food, and neglected the hostage's medical needs, Israeli
Channel 13's Almog Boker reported Wednesday. A Gazan doctor also held
another hostage, according to Boker.
A spokeswoman for the UNRWA acknowledged the allegations but declined to comment.
And
as Israeli forces have cleared out Hamas strongholds and weapons
caches, many armaments have been found bearing the UNRWA logo (via Times of Israel):
The
Israel Defense Forces says troops operating in the northern Gaza Strip
have located dozens of rockets hidden under boxes with UNRWA markings in
a residential home, and other weaponry belonging to Hamas.
Troops
of the 7007th Reserve Battalion were searching a home in a neighborhood
when they found a room full of boxes bearing the logo of the UN agency
that supports Palestinian refugees.
Underneath the boxes, dozens of rockets, mortars and other explosives were found, the IDF says.
Given
these allegations, it’s a bit surprising that they had their director
of affairs, Thomas White, go on CNN, where he was grilled about his
organization's ties to terrorism. It did not go well:
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And to boot, UNRWA tried to neutralize the allegations on social
media, only to get brutally fact-checked for being a hub for terrorist
activity. On top of the teacher holding an Israeli hostage story, UNRWA
teachers celebrated the October 7 attacks, and a headmaster at a UNRWA
school was a terrorist:
And
the United Nations is the body that remained silent on the mass rape of
Israeli women by Hamas savages for nearly 60 days and essentially
blamed Israel for the October 7 attacks. It’s a joke of an international
body that’s been compromised by pro-terrorist or antisemitic elements.
Now, one of their splinter sects is palling around with Hamas and other
terror groups. It’s why Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wants an
investigation, and no one should blame her (via Fox News):
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., demanded an investigation
into allegations that a controversial United Nations agency's employee
detained one of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attack
on Israel.
"The United States will not be complicit in propping
up Hamas' terrorism, and this report further proves why deep change is
necessary within UNRWA before we even consider providing another dollar
to the agency," Blackburn wrote in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital
and addressed to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield
and United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General
Philippe Lazzarini.
"It is deeply concerning that, despite the
prevalence of these reports, the United Nations has seemingly done
nothing to investigate or prevent the siphoning of UNRWA funding by
terrorists, and UNRWA continues to double down on its claims that each
subsequent, documented report is ‘unsubstantiated.’"
Blackburn
has requested a response by Dec. 18 that addresses a report from Israeli
reporter Almog Boker about a UNRWA employee who allegedly detained a
hostage in their house for 50 days and details of any investigation into
the report, as well as an explanation of UNRWA's "process for ensuring
its facilities are not used to support terrorist activities," among
other points.
Boker, a journalist with Israeli Channel 13, last
week claimed on social media platform X that he had interviewed a
recently released hostage who told him a UNRWA teacher held them
hostage. He additionally claimed a Gazan doctor – allegedly a
pediatrician – helped hold another hostage captive for Hamas.
Not that it needs to be said, but this is another reason why any
further overtures for a pause in the fighting should be ignored. Keep
killing Hamas.
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