About 1,200 UNRWA staffers have links to Hamas, thousands more closely related to terrorists: Israeli dossier

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By Ronny Reyes

Around 1,200 staffers with the UN’s Palestinian refugee help company have links to Hamas — and thousands more of the employees are closely related to members of Gaza terror teams, in accordance to an Israeli dossier.

The damning report — constructed by interrogations of Hamas terrorists and recovered paperwork in Gaza — alleges that about 10% of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s 12,000 staff in Gaza have ties to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Wall Street Journal mentioned.

Among the entire company’s staff, practically half — or round 6,000 — have shut kin within the militant organizations, which have dominated Gaza since 2007, in accordance to the intelligence, which was given to the US.

Those with ties to the fear teams have been thought of “operatives,” which means they took half in Hamas’ army or political actions, the report mentioned.

“UNRWA’s problem is not just ‘a few bad apples’ involved in the Oct. 7 massacre — the institution as a whole is a haven for Hamas’ radical ideology,” a senior Israeli authorities official instructed the Journal.

UNRWA declined to touch upon the allegations that its ranks have been full of Hamas kinfolk, noting that an inner UN investigation of the company was ongoing after 12 members have been accused final week of collaborating within the Oct. 7 terrorist assault.

While 15% of the typical grownup males in Gaza have some ties to Hamas, the intelligence report indicated {that a} considerably larger share — practically a fourth — of UNRWA’s male staff had connections to the group, alleging that the fear group might have had more affect on the help company than on the inhabitants at giant.

The obvious politicalization of the help group has been beforehand flagged by Israel, which discovered that former UNRWA union chief Suhail al-Hindi had been elected to a senior position in Hamas in 2017.

UNRWA rapidly fired al-Hindi after the discharge of the intelligence report.

The help group has fired 9 of the 12 staffers accused of actively taking part in Hamas’ terror actions, together with an Arabic trainer who was revealed to be a militant commander who took half within the slaughter at Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7.

Two of the dozen are already lifeless, and the destiny of the 12th is unclear.

The fired staffers included different academics and social staff who assisted with the fear assault that left more than 1,200 folks lifeless and more than 240 others kidnapped.

The allegations going through the company have shaken the world’s confidence in its potential to present help for the practically 2 million Palestinian refugees caught in the course of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Ten nations, together with the US, have lower hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in funding to UNRWA, with company Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini criticizing the transfer as one which unjustly punishes the Palestinian inhabitants as an entire.

“Our humanitarian operation, on which 2 million people depend as a lifeline in Gaza, is collapsing,” Lazzarini mentioned over the weekend. “I’m shocked such selections are taken based mostly on alleged conduct of some people and because the conflict continues, wants are deepening and famine looms.

“Palestinians in Gaza did not need this additional collective punishment. This stains all of us,” he added.