After various accusations and accusations numerous reports to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) regarding its terrorist ties related to the Hamas terrorist massacre in Israel. Agencies affected by the scandal are facing new allegations of wrongdoing.
UN Watch, a non-governmental organization headquartered in Geneva published part of a 150 page document Executive Director Hillel Neuer told Fox News Digital that “senior UNRWA officials are involved with terrorists and meet with them regularly.”
before presenting his documents to the world Neuer attempted to speak directly with UNRWA Commissioner Philippe Lazzarini. In a letter to Lazzarini, Neuer explained that Lazzarini officials had previously complained that UN Watch had not sent the report to UNRWA for comment before publication. Then, Neuer It recounts several attempts to meet privately with Lazzarini to discuss UN Watch’s findings and explains that when UN Watch releases the document, Lazzarini cannot “claim that… We did not show you the evidence in advance.”
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UN vehicles enter the UNRWA offices in Jerusalem 2 April 2024. (Juv Dudkevich/TPS)
Neuer’s group then released photographs of senior UNRWA officials, including Lazzarini and former Pierre Krahenbuhl, UNRWA Commissioner Meet with the accused terrorist leader “You will not find these photos on social media of (UNRWA officials) themselves,” he said. “We have found our own way. But they didn’t post it.”
Neuer pointed Fox News Digital to two undated photos showing Lazzarini meeting with a group that included members of a terrorist organization. including the Islamic Jihadi movement Ansar Islamic League and Hamas
In another photo, back in late 2014, several UNRWA regional directors met with Ali Baraka, a senior member of Hamas. Neuer said. And a report from Al Watan Voice confirmed that UNRWA officials wanted to “congratulate (Baraka) on the Hamas anniversary.”
Terrorists from Hamas attend a military parade. (Reuters/Ibrahim Abu Mustafa/File Photo)
In another case Neuer said he was able to find photos and text messages from a February 2017 meeting between former UNRWA chief Pierre Krahenboul Baraka, members of the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and jihadis. Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and others, according to UN Watch, Krahenbuhl reportedly told the meeting that “We are one And no one can separate us.”
In September 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice announced “terrorism charges. murder conspiracy and evasion of sanctions” against Baraka and five other Hamas leaders for their roles in the Hamas Oct. 10, Sept. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks. It killed 40 Americans and more than 1,000 others.
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Pierre Krahenbuhl, UNRWA Commissioner, spoke at a press conference in Amman. Jordan on August 8, Oct. 30, 2018 (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)
Krahenbuhl and his officials were investigated in 2019 over reports of “Sexual misconduct Nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and abuse of power.” Krahenbuhl resigned from his position. But in April 2024, when nominated to head the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), congressional leaders called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Samantha Power to lead the agency. USA International Development “persuaded the ICRC to reconsider this appointment” due to Krahenbuhl’s “disastrous tenure” as UNRWA Commissioner.
Fox News Digital asked the ICRC about photos of Krahenbuhl posing with terrorist leaders. and parliamentary concerns about his suitability for a position at the Red Cross Council. A spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the ICRC “was not present at the meeting. Therefore, the full context of the conversation cannot be discussed.”
They also stated that Krahenbuhl “has demonstrated through his work at the ICRC and his decades of humanitarian experience that he has one goal: to provide assistance to civilians in conflict zones. Meeting with any group that controls access to civilians is an important part of the work of the ICRC and other humanitarian organizations. in conflict areas”
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The latest UN Watch document also includes interviews with UNRWA students shot by a local Palestinian film crew over a three-week period in the summer of 2024. In one interview A 14-year-old former student of UNRWA’s Ein Arik co-educational school says his school taught him “Let’s fight and resist” so that “Palestine may be liberated and our land returned to us by the good grace of Allah”.'” Child later described the solution for Jerusalem. It was, “Kill the Jews. We will exterminate the Jews.”
A second NGO, IMPACT-se, has reported extensively on educational materials used in UNRWA schools for more than two decades. in November The 13th IMPACT-se report names 12 senior UNRWA executives, deputy directors or the deputy director of a training center that is a member of Hamas, or PIJ, the report said nine of the 12 people participated in the October terrorist attack, with “some serving as units Operation Nukbaa,” in which a member of Hamas’ special forces unit, a UNRWA principal, and two Hamas members headed the school. “In which the Hamas tunnel is being built.”
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UNRWA in Gaza on 20 June 2023 (Ahmed Zakot/SOPA/LightRocket Images via Getty Images)
The latest IMPACT-se review reinforces findings from March 2023 that two UNRWA schools led by Hamas members had IMPACT-se has now named three additional schools where Hamas operatives serve as UNRWA officials. The NGO has found that these schools promote “Defamation and intolerance of Israel” and “gratuitously insert content promoting hate and violence against Israel into grammar exercises.”
IMPACT-se found that UNRWA schools “shamelessly flout” UNESCO standards, including “peacebuilding Respect for Non-Palestinian Groups and avoid incitement to violence.”
The group’s report cited intelligence that claimed “more than 10% of 510 (senior) employees in the UNRWA education system in Gaza” were members of PIJ or Hamas. UNRWA members were not allowed to join the terrorist group. dangers determined by the United Nations Security Council But as Neuer explains: “The UN terrorist list is one of the thinnest in the world” because “Russia and China can block any designation. that they don’t like.” Neuer said this means “Almost no Palestinian group” is on the list.
Fox News Digital contacted UNRWA media officials several times in response to the content of IMPACT-se and UN Watch’s documents regarding allegations that UNRWA schools do not comply with UNESCO standards and regarding Lazzarini’s refusal to meet with Neuer
UNRWA Commissioner Philippe Lazzarini addresses the opening day of the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva. (Jean-Guy Python/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Bill Deere, director of UNRWA’s representative office in Washington, told Fox News Digital that “UNRWA Commissioner Philippe Lazzarini warns against the spread of disinformation towards UNRWA.” “It aims to create chaos and distract attention from the political goal of dissolving the agency,” the statement reads. Lazzarini shared on After Neuer’s documents were published Deere said: “UNRWA recommends before giving any oxygen to such allegations. Double check the source. and questions the intent to avoid becoming an echo chamber for disinformation. and de facto fuels hatred and slander of others. People’s lives are in danger.”
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In an interview with UNRWA students for UN Watch, he said: “What they don’t tell you is that these children were filmed without their parents’ knowledge or permission,” Dear said. Was isolated and asked a series of leading questions designed to elicit answers. This is not misleading. It is twisted and hopeless.”
The United States was one of several countries to end support for UNRWA in January. After preliminary evidence emerged that members were involved in the October 7 terror attacks, Congress suspended funding to UNRWA until March 2025.
