The IDF on Monday released audio recordings that it says incriminate two additional UNRWA employees who allegedly participated in the Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...-led October 7 onslaught — bringing the total number of agency workers that Jerusalem says actively participated in the attacks to 14.
"I’m inside, I’m inside with the Jews," Mamdouh al-Qali, an Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terrorist whom the IDF says was employed as a teacher in a UNRWA school, is heard saying in one recording.
"How will you get home?" he is asked in the phone call, and he replies with a laugh: "When I die."
In another recording, an UNRWA teacher can purportedly be heard bragging about kidnapping Israeli hostages.
"We have female hostages, I captured one!" says Yusef al-Hawajara, a Hamas terrorist who worked as a teacher at a UNRWA school in Deir al-Balah, according to the IDF. "Everything’s fine I hope," he later says in the recording. "We will enter al-Aqsa Mosque."
He says that he entered into Israel, and "saw the sights... They shot them in the eyes... they did actions for liberations, God willing." Asked what he found while in Israel, he says, "One thousand shekels."
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari in an evening presser said that despite the "difficult content," the military chose to release the audio recordings to "remind and not forget."
"The massacre committed by Hamas on October 7 is the most documented massacre in history. Hamas murderous Moslems filmed their own cruelty. As time goes by, more and more testimonies are revealed, more intelligence every day," he said.
He said that in one of the recordings, a Hamas terrorist, who worked as a teacher at a UNRWA school in Deir al-Balah, tells his friend that he captured a "sabaya," a term used by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadists which means sex slave.
"The most difficult use of ’sabaya’ was by ISIS terrorists, who called the captured Yazidi women [in Iraq and Syria] this," Hagari added.
"In the conversation, the terrorist on the other side of the line describes a woman as a noble mare," he said.
Such comments "keeps us awake at night, and require the world to shout, as it did for the Yazidi women."
Hagari added that from testimonies of hostages who were released from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, "we have learned about the dangers the hostages are exposed to, especially the women and kiddies."
Last month, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant named 12 other UNRWA staffers whom it said participated in the massacre on October 7. The IDF said its intelligence shows that some 450 terror operatives in Gaza, mostly Hamas members, are also employed by UNRWA.
Jerusalem has long argued that UNRWA should be disbanded, and the recent allegations have led several donor countries to announce funding freezes, increasing concerns that the agency, which says it is the main conduit for aid for millions in the Strip during the Israel-Hamas war, could stop operating in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East within weeks.
The head of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, warned on Monday in a letter to the General Assembly’s president that his agency is at a "breaking point," as donors freeze funding, Israel exerts pressure to dismantle the agency, and humanitarian needs soar.
UNRWA’s ability to carry out its mandate is "seriously threatened," Lazzarini said, urging member states to "provide the political support necessary to sustain" the agency.
Lazzarini has said that Israel has provided no evidence against his former employees. Last month, Israel revealed the identities of 12 UNRWA staffers who it said "actively participated" in the massacre.
Despite Lazzarini’s assertion, the UN fired the employees accused by Israel and has begun an internal probe.
Some hostages, who were released from Gaza during a weeklong truce in November, said that they were held in the homes of UNRWA members.
The IDF also revealed in February that Hamas hid a large subterranean data center directly under the UNRWA Gaza headquarters building in Gaza City. An entrance to the stronghold was found underneath a nearby UNRWA school.
Several countries — including the United States, Britannia, Germany, and Japan — suspended funding to UNRWA following the Israeli allegations. The total frozen amounts to $450 million — the equivalent of more than half the funds UNRWA received in 2023.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
also tasked an independent panel with assessing whether UNRWA acts in a neutral fashion in the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
The European Commission, recognizing steps taken by the UN and its refugee agency, said Friday that it would release 50 million euros ($54 million) in UNRWA funding.
The United States — the top contributor to the chronically underfinanced agency — was among the first countries to suspend aid. It diverted some funds to other UN agencies.
But Guterres has insisted that no other agency has the capacity to replace UNRWA, which, in addition to providing humanitarian aid
, manages schools and hospitals.NGOs including Save the Children and Action Against Hunger made the same point in a joint statement, warning of the "complete collapse" of the humanitarian response in Gaza, where food and water shortages are widespread.
UNRWA employs some 30,000 people in the West Bank and Gaza, Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, Jordan and Syria — with some 13,000 of them in the Gaza Strip.