The UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services, an independent office within the UN Secretariat, stated in an Aug. 5 news release that it
investigated a grand total of “19 area UNRWA staff members.” In the case of nine UNRWA employees, “the evidence — if authenticated and corroborated — could indicate that the UNRWA staff members may have been involved in the attacks of 7 October.” The agency closed nine other cases due to “insufficient” evidence. And, in one case, “no evidence was obtained” and the individual “rejoined the Agency.”
The investigation only reportedly focused on a small group of 19 individuals. This means the agency seemingly disregarded or ignored “detailed information” provided by Israel in July that
identified 108 UNRWA employees who were linked to either Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
So in the last 10 months, the
UN investigation of
UNRWA and found maybe 9 members “May” have been involved, but their involvement is confidential, etc…
Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces
uncovered what the Times of Israel described on Feb. 10 as a “subterranean data centre” underneath UNRWA’s headquarters in an upscale Gaza neighbourhood. A formal search of this tunnel revealed “an electrical room, industrial battery power banks and living quarters for Hamas terrorists operating the computer servers.” Inside the headquarters were “Grenades, rockets, launchers, explosives, a large amount of weapons that would put any Hamas company to shame,” said IDF commander Col. Benny Aharon during a media tour of the tunnel and complex.
In a Feb. 10 X post, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
wrote that the agency “did not know what is under its headquarters in Gaza.” To which the Israeli defence bureau for Palestinian civil affairs, the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories,
responded, “Oh, you knew.… You chose to ignore the facts so you can later try and deny them.”
ally be chalked up to ignorance or lack of awareness is clearly smoking the hopium. “There is no doubt that UNRWA staff knew that (Hamas) was digging a massive tunnel beneath them,” Aharon told reporters. “There’s a perimeter wall, a gate, cameras, at the gate they log who comes in and out. Whoever worked at UNRWA knew very well who was coming in, and who they were covering for.”
Nevertheless, Israel did its due diligence and provided UNRWA with information that a large group of its employees were tied in some fashion to terrorist organizations.
UNRWA launched a probe of seven of its employees in January, and 12 further employees in March. The agency
announced that some employees had been fired on Jan. 26.
“Any UNRWA employee who was involved in acts of terror will be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution,” Lazzarini
said in a Feb. 8 statement.
Although UNRWA has never confirmed the number of employees it has fired, Lazzarini’s statement did note that, “Of the 12 people implicated, UNRWA immediately identified and terminated the contracts of 10, another two are confirmed dead.”
The
UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services, an independent office within the
UN Secretariat, stated in an Aug. 5 news release that it
investigated a grand total of “19 area
UNRWA staff members.”
What about the large group of
UNRWA employees identified by Israel’s Foreign Ministry as having possible terrorist links? It appears that absolutely nothing was done in this respect. That’s why Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the
UN, correctly called the Office of Internal Oversight Services investigation “a disgrace.”
The agency says it's fired nine employees with links to Hamas, but many more are suspected. It doesn't deserve Canada's funding
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