Asaf Romirowsky and Alex Joffe
The National Interest, Feb. 25, 2024
“Lies and corruption have been built into UNRWA from the very beginning.”
The discovery of a Hamas server farm beneath the United Nations Relief and Relief Agency (UNRWA) ’s Gaza headquarters culminates a catastrophic few months for the world’s largest welfare organization. Israeli intelligence recently found that at least a dozen UNRWA employees were directly involved in the October 7 massacres, and at least 1,200 had ties to Hamas. In addition, UN Watch released a report showing that over 3,000 UNRWA employees cheered on the October 7 report on private communications channels.
UNRWA’s ties to terror go back decades, as do their denials of the obvious. Commissioner General Phillipe Lazzarini’s claim of being unaware that Hamas was literally beneath them with wires running from the headquarters to the server farm through the floor is as absurd as when the headquarters parking lot collapsed in 2014 as a result of Hamas’ underground construction or when rockets were found hidden in UNRWA schools twice. The organization then “strongly and unequivocally” condemned the unnamed “group or groups responsible for this flagrant violation of the inviolability of its premises under international law.”
Everyone in UNRWA knew and lied, just as everyone in Gaza knew that Hamas was constructing a 500-kilometer tunnel network that diverted construction materials and goods from international aid. As a result, the international community, through UNRWA, funded a vast portion of Hamas’ operations by freeing it to focus on terrorism rather than health and education.
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