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Document spells out allegations against 12 U.N. employees Israel says participated in Hamas attack

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By TIA GOLDENBERG, NAJIB JOBAIN and JACK JEFFERY

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Who really publishing those document? Can we really trust those documents?

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The 12 employees are all accused in an Israeli dossier - which has been declared gospel. Nine have been dismissed (before an investigation), 1 is dead and two are missing (presumed dead) and/or there is conjecture to the accuracy of the Israeli provided names (not to mention the utterly untested allegations as a whole).

This twelve represents less than 0.01% of the 13,000 employees on the ground in Gaza.

So, in other words, the majority are being collectively punished for the alleged (and unproven) actions of a very slim minority. And by majority, that is 2.5 million people.

More lies from the usual suspects and their enablers.

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Many more of the UNRWA’s staff are Hamas supporters otherwise Hamas would have killed them!

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The document said intelligence gathered showed that at least 190 UNRWA workers were Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives, without providing evidence.

Trust me bro.

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The evidence of this must of been gather prior Hamas military counter offensive of 07/10. Because all form communication in Gaza were close down on the 07/10. Israel controlled everything in Gaza the water, food, Meds, power, and I don't think Israel would not control communication. This prove Israel had prior warning of the pending Hamas counter offensive. So Israel allow the Hamas counter offensive to happen hoping it would trigger a genocidal Nakbar which is happening since 07/10. The UN should be investigation how Israel obtain this info and when. Evidence gathered from Israeli witnesses on 07/10 has proven the IDF were responsible for the majority of the killing with their indiscriminate shelling and firing on Israeli citizen has been proven. Israel has lost the support of 95% of the UN membership since they started their genocidal nakbar and they are clutching at straws to gain back the lost support. This info was only supply after the ICJ found Israel guilty of genocide.

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The document said intelligence gathered showed that at least 190 UNRWA workers were Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives, without providing evidence.

The destruction of UNRWA has been a long-term objective of the Zionists in their pursuit of the Gaza land grab and genocide.

On 4 January, Noga Arbell, a former Israeli official, called for the destruction of UNRWA during a discussion in the Israeli parliament:

https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1751480836682399772

Trust me bro

Indeed

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The document said intelligence gathered showed that at least 190 UNRWA workers were Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives, without providing evidence.

Trust me bro.

Exactly.

Meanwhile, at the International Court of Justice....

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The destruction of UNRWA has been a long-term objective of the Zionists in their pursuit of the Gaza land grab and genocide.

On 4 January, Noga Arbell, a former Israeli official, called for the destruction of UNRWA during a discussion in the Israeli parliament:

Absolutely. Well said Alfie.

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"The document said...XYZ...without providing evidence "

Says it all really.

UNRWA employs 30,000 people .whats 12 out of 30,000 ?

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As with former ex-Nazis after WWII, some of these brutal murderers slip through the cracks. Some are eventually identified, others not.

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And who would believe anything from Israel after the beheaded babies lies??!!

Total misdirection propaganda to take away from the ICJ genocide finding and Israels continued war crimes!

The whole population of GAZA has been displaced ! Where is the funding freeze to Israel??

On-top of which Israel was blocking most of the humanitarian aid anyway which is another war crime!

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2.3billion rapidly growing Muslims globally, none of whom like Israel. It's just math, and exactly how many youth like known long-term inhumane Gaza open prison conditions? These groups well represented at the UN.

Ask Joe Biden about his Gaza Genocide problem, Muslim Americans & Youth = NOT Happy with US policy.

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Who really publishing those document?

Hamas published live video during the Oct. 7 attack in which participating UNWRA members appeared.

Can we really trust those documents?

Do you believe Hamas?

This twelve represents less than 0.01% of the 13,000 employees on the ground in Gaza.

So this number isn't significant?

Interestingly, the same percentage of Gazans claimed to have been killed by Israeli strikes since 0ct. 7.

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Well, kudos to Israel for killing the UN story about genocide...

Master manipulators.

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Couple of things. Who said? Israel said, and the docs shared with the U.S. and who else? The article mentions that, " the findings detailed in the document could not be independently confirmed." So Israel says so with no hard proof and we're to believe? The second point is even if what Israel says is true it only affirms what we already know, that they have the most sophisticated intelligence and tech systems in the region. So why didn't they know about the planning of 10/7 and implement counter-measures?

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Israel responded with an intense air, sea and ground offensive that has killed more than 26,000 Palestinians, most of them women and minors, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count.

Great reporting. This false narrative that the 26,000 that have been killed are all civilians needs to be stomped out.

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So this number isn't significant? If you got rise in pay of 00.1 you would be the first to scream.

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South Africa brought piles of concrete evidence to ICJ on Israel's g3nocid3, yet the support and assistance to this country is still pouring in. On the other hand, an allegation from Israel on the involvement of 12 UNWRA ground staff with H4mas has made a number of countries stop humanitarian aid to the millions of displaced innocent people.

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South Africa brought piles of concrete evidence to ICJ on Israel's g3nocid3, yet the support and assistance to this country is still pouring in.

You mean the evidence that was reviewed by the ICJ and still noted Israel’s military campaign as justified?

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War criminals and genocidal maniacs but let's keep giving Israel money.... The hypocrisy is nauseating

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Israel has terrorists in it's Cabinet.

Israel sends squads to foreign countries to kill people.

Israel sends missiles to foreign countries to kill people.

Israel distorts all facts about Oct. 7 and it's conduct of this current war on Palestinians.

Israel ignores all International Courts ruling on "settlers " in the occupied territories.

Who gave this Zionist fanatic Government a free "get out of jail free "

Jesus wept

Israel has elections, and that makes it a democracy ?

Crap to that.

You cant be a democracy in your front yard and hold millions of people prisoner in the back yard.

Lots of Jews agree with these sentiments.

"Self loaving Jews " is the term Zionist use to describe them.

The biggest threat facing Israel is it's likelihood of becoming a thought policed state and crushing divergent views...

McCarthyism on a national scale.

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Who could TRUST anything Israel claims after what we have seen in the past 115 days!?

Lies about Hamas HQ under hospitals that were obliterated with women and children still inside,

Lies about it is only targeting Hamas fighters while killing over 26,000 innocent people,

Lies about Hamas fighters killing 1200 Israeli's when it turns out that many were killed by the IDF during fights with attackers,

Lies about Hamas fighters rapping Israeli hostage women when these women denied it 110%.

And now this LIE again trying to starve the people of Gaza and hopping they will leave it.

Israel has lost all Moral Authority .

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Here is the next BIG lie that will come out of Israel,

Israel will claim that many PA members joined in the attack on Oct. 7th and that the PA provided intel. to Hamas about Israel troops movements, this will give Israel an excuse for it's next phase of eliminating the PA in the west bank.

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Israel has terrorists in it's Cabinet.

Gaza is governed entirely by a literal terrorist organization

Israel sends squads to foreign countries to kill people.

Hamas does the exact same thing. Are you forgetting 10/7?

Israel distorts all facts about Oct. 7 and it's conduct of this current war on Palestinians.

And Hamas doesn’t? I bet you still believe the 400 deaths at an Israeli bombed hospital lie

Israel ignores all International Courts ruling on "settlers " in the occupied territories.

Hamas ignores all international recognition of Israel’s territory and claims it as their own

Israel has elections, and that makes it a democracy ?

literally yes

You cant be a democracy in your front yard and hold millions of people prisoner in the back yard.

You mean the people who have rejected multiple peace agreements, are constantly launching rockets into Israel and openly want to expel Jews from the territory?

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Palestinians Charge Genocide in U.S. Court; Biden & Blinken Sued for Backing Israel's War on Gaza (youtube.com)

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An Israeli document ...........................................................

Say no more! Fool me once...and the boy who cried "Wolf!" twice lost all credibility and was never believed again. Evidence, not the Israeli version of "the Protocols of the Elders of Zion", is what the world wants to see. It's telling that governments which have been shameless accomplices in Israel's inhumane lawlessness now in the crosshairs of the ICJ, wasted no time in eagerly accepting at face value the charges against 12 low-level Palestinians (who, even if helping Hamas, might have every reason to view Israel as the enemy occupier) thereby rubbing more salt in the wounds of the starved people of Gaza while ignoring in concert the grave charges levelled at the cruel, sadistic Zionist government.

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Lies about it is only targeting Hamas fighters while killing over 26,000 innocent people,

Did you even read the article? The article specifically states that the Gazan health authority doesn’t distinguish between fighter and civilian deaths and reports every death as a civilian. The 26,000 innocent deaths line is blatantly false

Lies about Hamas fighters killing 1200 Israeli's when it turns out that many were killed by the IDF during fights with attackers, 

You keep saying this but haven’t provided any proof.

Lies about Hamas fighters rapping Israeli hostage women when these women denied it 110%.

“Israel’s top police investigations unit, Lahav 433, is still poring over 50,000 pieces of visual evidence and 1,500 witness testimonies, and says it is unable to put a number on how many women and girls suffered gender-based violence.”

“Evidence points to systematic use of rape and sexual violence by Hamas in 7 October attacks“

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/evidence-points-to-systematic-use-of-rape-by-hamas-in-7-october-attacks

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@Rustom: Everyone in this world knew the U.S. and her allies were complicit with Israel to make accusations on UNRWA. They made sanctions without the proof or investigation of the authenticity. History will remember all of these countries enabled this castastrope.

TheiWest's so called "Rule based world order", what a bad joke!

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"Document spells out allegations against 12 U.N. employees Israel says participated in Hamas attack." This was very organized crime against humanity. Keep pealing the onion till we find all those involved.

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@Rustom: Everyone in this world knew the U.S. and her allies were complicit with Israel to make accusations on UNRWA. They made sanctions without the proof or investigation of the authenticity. History will remember all of these countries enabled this castastrope.

TheiWest's so called "Rule based world order", what a bad joke!

I hear you loud and clear!

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So Israel does it because Hamas does it ?

And Hamas listed as terrorist organisation by some, not all countries. Ha Ha...Netanyahu assisted the rise of Hamas to destablise the PA.

Funny how things turn out.

Like the USA supporting the Mujahidin in Afghanistan...they morphed into the Taliban, once called "terrorists "....now allowed to govern.

Funny.

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So Israel does it because Hamas does it ?

Does what?

And Hamas listed as terrorist organisation by some, not all countries.

Only by countries that matter

Netanyahu assisted the rise of Hamas to destablise the PA.

What?

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Hamas published live video during the Oct. 7 attack in which participating UNWRA members appeared.

Lets see it then. Lets see the undeniable evidence that these specific UNWRA members took part in the October 7th massacre. Their UNWRA Id and the footage of their participation. Its not difficult.

It could well be true. 99% of UNWRA employees are Palestinians, who have all grown up under thesame occupation/siege/apartheid imposed by Israel. If a few of them flew off the rails I could understand, I don't condone it, but if one of these supposed teachers had family members killed by the IDF? could cause a bit of resentment, right?

Then, when we have the evidence, let's punish those who took part... Oh wait they were already fired by UNWRA.. the ones who weren't killed that is.

In the meantime I agree that there should be an independent investigation of UNRWA (not by UN Watch), this would be much easier if Israel didnt have the whole of Gaza under siege/bombardment.

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Ha Ha...Netanyahu assisted the rise of Hamas to destablise the PA.

Exactly.

Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.

This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.

Speaking to Likud members of the Knesset (March 2019), as cited in "Another Concept Implodes: Israel Can’t Be Managed by a Criminal Defendant", **Haaretz (9 October 2023)**

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Palestine, forever the victim of misery injustice and death.

Hamas, and allegedly the U.N. agency tasked to provide humanitarian aid, safe haven, accused of perpetrating atrocities, the slaughtering of 1200, the kidnap of innocent men women children infants, provoking war.

A coalition of 20 aid groups, including the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam and Save the Children, also called for funding to be restored, saying UNRWA's delivery of humanitarian assistance “cannot be replaced.”

“If the funding suspensions are not reversed, we may see a complete collapse of the already restricted humanitarian response in Gaza,” they said in a joint statement.

Better assure, provide clear evidence that the recruitment process is safe and secure from terrorist masquerading as teachers.

And promptly.

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Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.

This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.

Wasn’t this in reference to preventing a civil war in Gaza which would in turn force Israel to come in and police the area?

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according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Who believes terrorists?

They put ketchup on the faces of children to make them look like they were injured by the IDF. People crawl into body bags for pictures, then crawl out.

And the UNWRA assists in these fake, propaganda photos.

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Better assure, provide clear evidence that the recruitment process is safe and secure from terrorist masquerading as teachers.

I agree that there needs to be a proper investigation. Cant happen whilst the whole state is under constant bombardment by the IDF though, 99% of UNRWA employees are Palestinian.

Even if you can do a thorough background check on these people during the recruitment process, Im not sure how you can prevent a teacher/doctor/fisherman/whatever becoming radicalised after losing their home and their family to the IDF.

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Wasn’t this in reference to preventing a civil war in Gaza which would in turn force Israel to come in and police the area?

No. What he's saying is pretty clear.

Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.

This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.

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If Donald Trump won the US presidency at November this year, America will funding Israel settlers resettling in Gaza, that is for sure. And he will send congratulations to the next PM of Israel after Netanyahu, maybe that Itamar Ben givar to succeed his post!

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No. What he's saying is pretty clear.

It actually was in reference to that I don’t know why you’re saying no

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