The United Nations’ scandal-ridden Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has been hit by more claims that it cooperates with terrorists.
Israel has long accused the body of having been infiltrated by Hamas, implicating it in the October 7th terror attacks. But Western leaders have been largely dismissive of such claims. One of UK Labour’s first actions in government earlier this year was to restart funding to the agency—after being given “reassurances that it [the U.N.] was tightening up the vetting of new recruits.”
But the human rights group UN Watch says it has found new evidence of UNRWA staff working with terrorists and teaching young Palestinians to “fight back and resist.”
Presenting these findings to Fox News, Executive Director Hillel Neuer said a new 150-page dossier shows “high-level UNRWA staff who are complicit with terrorists, who meet with them regularly.”
Neuer has also shared undated images on Twitter/X, allegedly showing UNRWA officials meeting with members of terrorist organisations, commenting that “you wouldn’t find these photos on [UNRWA officials’] own social media.”
New interviews with Palestinian children attending UNRWA-operated schools have also raised serious questions on the embedding of anti-Israeli—and anti-Jewish—messaging.
One boy, questioned by a local Palestinian film crew, claimed he was taught “to fight back and resist” so that “Palestine will be liberated and our lands will return to us by the good grace of Allah.” He also said the solution for Jerusalem is to “kill the Jews. We get rid of the Jews.”
Another said that “we take pride in” the October 7th terror attacks.
Following this latest wave of accusations, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said that “the disinformation campaign against UNRWA has reached a new low.” Neuer responded in turn that if claims really were false, “you would have sued me.”
