{"id":14900,"date":"2024-01-31T12:47:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T12:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/us-taxpayer-funded-un-agencys-long-history-of-enabling-hamas-exposed\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T12:47:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T12:47:44","slug":"us-taxpayer-funded-un-agencys-long-history-of-enabling-hamas-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/us-taxpayer-funded-un-agencys-long-history-of-enabling-hamas-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"US taxpayer-funded UN agency\u2019s long history of enabling Hamas exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JERUSALEM \u2014 The shocking revelation that some employees of the U.N. agency UNRWA were part of the Oct. 7 massacre and transported Hamas terrorists in U.N. vehicles is just the most recent example of the heavily U.S.-subsidized agency\u2019s relationship with Hamas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018UNRWA is a horror show that is decades in the making co-produced by the United States taxpayer,\u2019 Richard Goldberg a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies(FDD,) said during testimony to a subcommittee of the House Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has been digging over the years into the scandal-plagued history of UNRWA, an acronym for the\u00a0United Nations Relief and Works Agency\u00a0for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. \u00a0<\/p>\n

According to a\u00a0dossier that Israel\u2019s government submitted to the Biden administration in late January, 12 UNRWA employees allegedly aided Hamas in different capacities Oct. 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seven U.N. staffers crossed\u00a0into Israel Oct. 7 while others were accused of \u2018participating in a terror activity\u2019 or coordinating vehicle movements. The\u00a0Biden\u00a0administration has given UNRWA $1\u00a0billion of taxpayer money since 2021.<\/p>\n

Just weeks before Israel claimed UNRWA employees took part in the Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel,\u00a0Fox News Digital reported a Telegram channel used by more than 3,000 teachers for UNRWA in Gaza was found replete with posts celebrating Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attack on Israel, praising the terrorists who raped and murdered civilians as \u2018heroes.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Telegram channel is intended for UNRWA teachers and contains files with staff names, ID numbers, schedules and curriculum materials. In one post highlighted in the U.N. Watch report, UNRWA teacher Waseem Ula shared a video glorifying the Hamas attacks and posted a photo of a suicide bomb vest wired with explosives.\u00a0The caption said, \u2018Wait, sons of Judaism.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reported on an August video titled\u00a0\u2018Askar\u2014UNRWA: Cradle of Killers\u2019 purportedly showing Palestinian children inciting hatred against Jews and Israel at the Askar refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Fox News Digital reported that UNRWA schoolbooks were\u00a0tainted with \u2018systematic hatred\u2019 of Israel. UNRWA has faced years of criticism for allowing school text books to be filled with antisemitic chapters in its schools while also glorifying terrorists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two years earlier, in 2017, a\u00a0Hamas terrorism tunnel was found beneath two UNRWA schools in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n

St\u00e9phane Dujarric, spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, told Fox News Digital by email, \u2018As for donors, 15 donors announced funding suspension to UNRWA since 26 January (as of 29 Jan), namely: Australia, Austria, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Iceland, Romania Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, U.K. and the USA.\u2019<\/p>\n

When asked if the secretary-general will urge UNRWA\u2019s Commissioner\u00a0Philippe Lazzarini\u00a0to resign,\u00a0Dujarric said, \u2018Regarding Mr. Lazzarini, he continues to work with the full confidence of the secretary-general as he deals simultaneously with the allegations against UNRWA staff, on which he took swift and proactive action and continue[s] to lead the humanitarian response to what is unfolding in Gaza.\u2019<\/p>\n

When pressed if UNRWA is no longer tenable as an organization and beyond reform,\u00a0Dujarric referred Fox News Digital to his Monday press briefing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The contracts of the staff members directly involved have been terminated,\u2019 he said. \u2018An investigation by the U.N.\u2019s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) was immediately activated.<\/p>\n

\u2018The secretary-general is personally horrified by the accusations against employees of UNRWA, but his message to donors, especially those who have suspended their contributions, is to at least guarantee the continuity of UNRWA\u2019s operations, as we have tens of thousands of dedicated staff working throughout the region.\u2019<\/p>\n

During a briefing Tuesday, Dujarric\u00a0claimed \u2018UNRWA does not work with Hamas. We have operational contacts with de facto authorities like we do in every other place in the world where they are de facto authorities.\u2019<\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described evidence that 12 UNRWA employees participated in the Oct. 7 massacre\u00a0\u2018highly credible.\u2019<\/p>\n

Despite calls for a wholesale revision of UNRWA, Blinken noted that UNRWA plays an \u2018indispensable\u2019 role in furnishing aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip and that \u2018no one else can play the role that UNRWA has been playing, certainly not in the near term.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018This is the time to put stringent controls over UNRWA in the areas of education and\u00a0[the] inspection of weapons,\u2019\u00a0UNRWA critic David Bedein, director of the Center for Near East Policy Research and an expert on UNRWA\u2019s curriculum.<\/p>\n

Bedein told Fox News Digital that the Palestinian Fatah party and the terrorist organizations Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas \u2018are controlling the workers\u2019 unions\u2019 for UNRWA teachers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018You can stop that,\u2019 Bedein said.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u00a0reported in 2012 that\u00a0Palestinians voted UNRWA elected candidates linked to Hamas to 25 out of 27 seats on a union board that represents 10,000 UNRWA workers.<\/p>\n

Bedein said there must be a plan to overhaul UNRWA. First, \u2018Cancellation of the new UNRWA curriculum, based on Jihad, martyrdom and \u2018right of return by force of arms,\u2019\u00a0 which have no place in U.N. education, whose theme is \u2018Peace Begins Here.\u2019<\/p>\n

He insisted \u2018UNRWA dismiss employees affiliated with Hamas, Islamic Jihad or Fatah in accordance with laws of donor nations that forbid aid to any agency that employs members of a terrorist organization.\u2019<\/p>\n

Bedein notes that the \u2018current UNRWA policy is that any Arab refugee resettlement would interfere with the \u2018right of return\u2019 to pre-1948 Arab localities.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The refugee classification by UNRWA impedes the Israel-Palestinian peace process because it provides endless refugee status to generations of Palestinians who were not born in Israel.<\/p>\n

According to Israel, the Palestinian demand to return all refugees is an impossible proposal because it would create a non-Jewish state.<\/p>\n

Bedein argued that it was time to implement standards \u2018to advance resettlement of fourth- and fifth-generation refugees from the 1948 war who have spent seven decades relegated to refugee status,\u2019 while calling for an audit of all donor funds from the 68 nations who support the agency.<\/p>\n

The FDD\u2019s Richard Goldberg concluded his congressional testimony by telling the committee that, \u2018October 7th is the logical conclusion of UNRWA. It is of course what they have been training generations to do with the resources we\u2019ve provided going to these terrorist organizations to carry out that mission.\u2019<\/p>\n

UNRWA did not respond to multiple Fox News Digital questions.<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Lawrence Richard and Bradford Betz contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n

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