UN aid agency UNRWA has been “exposed” for its ties to Hamas, with an Israeli government spokesperson claiming the organization is “a whole rotten orchard” rather than “a few bad apples”.
The aid agency, which is responsible for more than 5 million Palestinian refugees, has come under repeated attack from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who claims it has ties to Hamas and other extremist groups.
As we reported, a new law passed in Israel yesterday bans the agency from operating in the country – see post at 6:39 a.m.
Speaking to presenter Jayne Secker, press secretary David Mensah said that according to Israeli tallies, UNRWA members took part in the massacre on October 7 last year, in which around 1,200 Israelis were killed and 250 were killed. He said he was taken back to Hamas as a hostage.
“UNRWA personnel have been exposed as actual terrorists, not on a small scale, not in a few bad apples, but in a whole rotten orchard,” he said.
“Also because UNRWA buildings have been used as cover for rocket launch sites.”
He also claimed that the militants involved in the October 7 attack were all “graduates of UNRWA’s education system.”
When Secker pressed him, he said UNRWA was a “big problem” because there was no other provider of schools in Gaza or the West Bank.
Ban is ‘completely wrong’
Mr Secker also said the US, UK, Canada, Japan and several other European countries had expressed concern about the measure, which British Foreign Secretary David Lamy said was “completely wrong”. .
But Mensah insisted that Hamas was “fully infiltrated” by UNRWA, that Gazans deserved better, and that Israel would do everything in its power to get aid to “ordinary Gazans.” did.
“Hamas is not upset when civilians are killed, so they deserve an organization that does not seek their death,” he said.
“They just want 10 times more people to be killed. And we want more of this aid to go to ordinary Gazans, not to the terrorist organization Hamas, to give them a better future.” I hope to be sent for.”
More than 1.9 million Palestinians have been forced to flee their homes and face widespread shortages of food, water and medicine in Gaza.
